Pros
- Some freedom to determine work schedule - Very rarely required to work weekends - Paid holidays
Cons
- Because you'll be hired as a contractor for the government, you'll work with outdated software languages and development methodologies - Retired military personnel are routinely, and as policy, paid less than their civilian counterparts who do the same thing - There are extremely limited opportunities to advance beyond what you were originally hired to do - You start with two (2) weeks a year vacation, but it takes fifteen (15) years of employment with company to get to four (4) weeks - Absurd timekeeping policies require salaried employees to account for EVERY minute of the day in three different time tracking systems - Mid-level management selected due to technical competence and senior management familiarity instead of known management abilities - Incompetent mid-level management do a poor job of determining fair and equitable standards, making them known, and applying them to all employees - Incompetent mid-level management do not identify specific duties and swim lanes for individual positions and fail to communicate them if known - Requirement to keep government happy and generate additional business necessitates numerous cumbersome and inefficient processes precluding employees from accomplishing anything and achieving any real job satisfaction