Vantaggi
This company came up with and still makes predator drones, which does raise its cool factor. Also, I'm pretty sure it's the same General Atomics in Fallout 4. So, I guess some people get a kick out of being around military stuff, without actually risking their lives. Too bad that drone is becoming their one-and-only trick. Their pay is low but they do have pretty good work-life balance and they offer a pension plan. This attracts a lot of semi-retired engineers. If you are a junior engineer, this is a good start, but I would turn and burn ASAP; the old tech will hold you back. They will get you a national security clearance if that floats your boat.
Svantaggi
* If you like cube farms and traveling to the desert and other wastelands, then apply. * Their tech is 20 years old; they still use manual testers and dev ops is a human process; i.e. there is no such thing CI/CD here. I want to say that the majority of their engineers are semi-retired and don't even know what AWS is. * Their methodology is nowhere near Agile. Their software has a ton of technical debt. They put performance and quality last. * Their project managers walk around like they're rock stars. They always complain about the quality of the software but never want to fund regression or performance testing. * There's a lot of UCSD influence here; i.e. they get a kick out of C++ and look down on web technologies and other "script kiddies". Modern UI frameworks like React or Angular are almost unheard of here.