Draper reviews

You will be over worked and underpaid. Depending on your team, micromanagement is a priority over the mental health of employees. Managers are all talk . They have no desire to mentor you or help you grow. They would rather put in effort to make you miserable and make you feel like you're worthless. Don't expect any praise, promotions, significant raises, etc... Management will find ways to reprimand you instead of teach you. Management will put the blame on you and throw you under the bus before taking accountability for their actions. They will step on anybody to get further in the company.

1. pay is below average (for software engineering in general, perhaps about average for aerospace/defense). 2. Draper likes to make it seem like there are tons of opportunities to work on exciting, new projects when in reality very few people get the chance to work on said project, and additionally funding for said projects seems to come and go. 3. Due to it being a matrix organization, you have to be comfortable selling yourself (which I generally am not) otherwise you'll never be able to work on the more interesting tasks and additionally your career will pretty much go nowhere. To elaborate, I've never worked directly with my boss and most of the time he works on completely different programs. Based on this he has little incite into the work I do, and since I'm generally a reserved person, the result has been most of the work I do goes unnoticed.