Pros
Nice office location, catered lunches and snacks, most employees are great people.
Cons
This company runs on unjustifiably inflated egos and petty office politics. Salaries are completely arbitrary. Do not waste your time trying to decipher their system or fight for a fair wage, you are more likely to face retribution than to achieve a satisfactory outcome. You will have better success just finding a new job. Performance Improvement Plans are handed out like Halloween candy, exposing the weakness of management. In fact there is no management, let alone leadership—just the guys who have been around the longest. Ironically, the HR representative is wildly unprofessional, making a pattern of letting sensitive information slip and lodging insulting accusations at employees. Turn over rate is monstrous to keep bodies in chairs for contract money. Employees hemorrhage out the door once they realize how mind numbing the work is. This primary reason for leaving is openly and apathetically admitted by management when questioned how they plan to address the turn over rate—“the work is the work.” Day to day tasking may include changing all the lines in a diagram to a certain color then being asked to change them all back again, scouring government resources for documents of dubious usefulness that may or may not exist, or preparing a set of slides to certain specifications by some completely arbitrary but URGENT due date only to have all the specifications spontaneously changed upon review. Sycophancy and pretending to know more than you do are ardently promoted. Recent STEM grads looking at the analyst position—you will not do any science, engineering, or math here despite how they like to advertise themselves. The technology you use is convoluted, buggy, and utterly inapplicable to any future job.
