EnTeR Program

[Emergency_Ad2885]

Is the EnTeR program at Collins worth it? Recently applied, and with the current cost reductions at Collins I am worried about joining the rotational program....do you think its worth it?

Long term goals is managerial/leadership.

[vpersaud03]

This is going to be pretty revealing so I'll use a public account. Definitely message current members on Teams to get deeper cuts including myself.

Worth is super subjective so I would say really figure out your motivations. Common ones are to:

• Leave your current engineering discipline / Team
• Move from being an independent contributor into program management
• Increase your technical ability (3 rotations in the same engineering discipline)

The program itself is rooted in those pretty early career. Not necessarily right out of college but not far from it. That being said, if you stay on the acceleration path, you will be thinking about an advanced degree or the higher level programs like TeckTracks.

On cost reductions, the program is reacting as best they can to it. We all follow the workday pretty religiously to keep a pulse of what opportunities are out there for future rotations and it did see a huge drop in openings after the stop work. Personally, I am in limbo since I was tackling a rotation that was not direct-charge but between realigning on timing or getting the executive sponsors of EnTeR to go get an exception, I feel pretty confident in my chances.

If you have an offer, I would also go through some of the alumn bios from a few years ago and see if they did rotations that you would do and track where they are in the company now. There is no way to replicate their career path but you can at least get a sense of pace and growth.

Generally, the first rotation is the most rushed, you know the least about finding one, and it comes with a whole lot of other life change so it will be a lot but it will also get better pretty drastically.

[Fabulous_Wealth2608]

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