Pros
1.0 9/80 schedule, competitive salary, great benefits 2.0 Flexible work schedule 3.0 Work is predetermined for you (you do not need to be creative - you follow management directives) 4.0 If you like a grindy type job where you don't need to think and can just make paper or code or test code or test results this is the place for you.
Cons
1.0 Old school management style - no headphones allowed. No fun basically. 2.0 People auditing work environment that may take away comforts like fans and other devices you use to get by in your office space everyday. 3.0 Creativity and productivity are constantly attacked by perpetual upper level management encroachment into technical project areas. If it moves in a way that is beneficial to the company it is attacked by many procedural engineering instructions to the point where it is taxed so heavily anyone but the most stalwart engineer will push it through. 4.0 Upper and middle management sits in luxury while other engineers suffer in a environment that lacks in true product quality and is all about paperwork and process. 5.0 Defense contracting is all about billable hours. Instead of focusing on efficiency and good products. The focus is on billing more for contracts to the government via more labor, when less labor could get the job done and yield a better product. It seems defense contracting is more about employing the populace than about making a great product at an effective price point, because if you don't spend the money - the next contract will be for less money (no incentive for smart engineers!). It makes us all pay more in taxes gives us a worse product and doesn't help advance STEM. 6.0 Finally - terrible management - all the good honest team members (or those who can risk leaving for better things) orientated people leave - the corrupt hardheaded people with no better place to go or no internal drive to strive for more in this world stay - and make everyone else miserable at this place. Use their position of power to make others as miserable as them and enforce this on other entrants to this upper class.
