Vantaggi
- Decent pay in a low-cost city. - Smart people in many roles. - Defense industry isn't wanting for money. - Overtime past 40 hours can be paid at 1x for exempt roles (if your program and supervisor aren't stingy, but many are). - Paid week off between Christmas and New Years.
Svantaggi
- Way too much process where you don't want it, far too little where you do. - Tech infrastructure is lagging years behind modern tech industry, and the company hasn't fully embraced the fact that it needs to be keeping up in order to thrive. - Work hard and your annual raise still barely keeps up with inflation. - Work/life balance can be terrible, depending on your program. - Customer-is-always-right mentality from management, even when the customer makes unreasonable demands of the engineers. - No separate sick leave, so everyone comes in sick to not burn PTO. - Underperforming co-workers tend to stick around. - Very employer-friendly timekeeping. - Not seeing any of that corporate tax cut that the CEO keeps bragging to us about.