Vantaggi
They are trying to build lunar landers! They also are pretty remote-friendly, though they do prefer hybrid/in-office and only allow remote on a case-by-case basis. The rank-and-file engineers are wonderful people and I loved working beside them.
Svantaggi
Poor leadership, especially at the Chief of Engineering level and above; they don't appear to have coherent high level goals. For example, they choose to prioritize pursuing new contracts over executing existing contracts, despite the fact that executing those existing contracts well is absolutely critical to winning new contracts. For example, filling many Product Development roles instead of prioritizing the back-filling of engineering roles where multiple highly talented individuals had recently resigned, _let alone_ hiring additional senior engineering roles. They also prefer to promote team leads from within, which would be fine if ispace US were a more well established team with years of built up experience, but instead since collectively each team doesn't have much experience, it turns into the blind leading the blind. And unfortunately it appears that most of the engineers with meaningful levels of experience are all in temporary contractor roles. They do not prioritize IT infrastructure or HR - those teams barely grew (or even shrank) during my short tenure.