- A lot of good old boys still around, pretending that there is just one "right" way to do everything. They love to talk, and while some of them do actually do something (and do it well), a lot of them like to sit on their laurels and tell us about how they did x and y on a program 20 years ago.
-No real consistency between projects; every lead engineer has their own preferences on how a drawing should be done, or how the release process should go.
- Expect a lot of overtime, some unpaid (5 hour OT gate during the week, but weekends/off days have no gate).
- Some of the work will be very confusing with constantly changing requirements, redundant/wasted work; this is often caused by poor communication within the engineering teams and management as well as from external customers.