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Applied Research Associates

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3.0
Apr 9, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- if you are an engineer they treat you reasonably well - work-life balance is pretty good

Cons

- pay is OK, but not that exciting - the "employee owned" thing gets you "stock" in the company only after 3 years of employment and because it is not real stock unloading it is complicated so it is not really a liquid asset. - I got the impression some management just cared about billing the government for labor hours rather than about trying to do a good job, management did not seem tuned into what people were doing, just to how many hours were being charged to various government contracts

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Cons

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