Poor quality hardware military contractor
Pros
Used to attract smart engineers who were willing to work hard for low pay to try to connect the unconnected - a few of those folks are left
Cons
They abandoned the commercial side of the business and are chasing military contracts. They only ever try to hire to fix issues; root causes of issue (largely lack of/ quality of management) are never addressed. Super toxic culture - 'only positive vibes' and the answer to problems is always to force people to work overnight shifts, weekends, to fix problems caused by bad management. Hardware is crap due to lack of most of the company caring, and a persistent culture of getting to the next visible milestone slightly faster, never quality. CTO 'doesn't believe' in systems engineering, so systems are a mess and again it is up to engineers to work overtime to fix it on the back end. Promotions are political; much of the senior leadership is completely unqualified but has worked at Astranis their whole career and knows how to brown-nose Gedmark - the true requirement for career success. Only thing keeping the company afloat is Gedmark's superb ability to con investors.