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Meaningless job - Mechanical Engineer Naval Sea Systems Command Employee Review

2.0
Oct 27, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Paid overtime. Work is not meant to be overly stressful; you don't take your work home with you. There can be some interesting challenges.

Cons

You cannot do very much your first couple of months here. Work does not have very much meaning, as most problems that you need to solve have been solved in the past. You do not need an engineering degree to do the work here, and you don't actually do any engineering. As a result, you may lose any useful engineering skills that you learned in college. I don't believe that there is any marketable skill development here, which makes me think that it will be difficult retaining new hires for more than a year. I haven't heard anyone in the engineering department express that they actually like their job.

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Cons

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Pros

Decent pay and benefits for the area, unique work that you can't do many other places, good opportunities for travel and promotion

Cons

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