If you have competence and a career, and especially if you have any ambition whatsoever, this is a company that will set you back. The corporate product suite is run by a very small group of unpleasant people whose competence appears to be getting and keeping the CEO's ear. They micro-manage everything, jealously guard access to upper management, and consider any new products, initiatives, or ideas to be a challenge to their authority. They will stonewall or outright shoot down anything you say or do, and the more competence you have the higher the threat to their tin-pot office empire.
The notion of helping to make government more efficient seems noble until you actually get to work there and realize what they're running is, for all practical purposes, a fee-extraction machine. What really happens is corporate is running full speed ahead using any duct-tape and chicken-wire solution necessary to satisfy any whim from government customers, because the real incentive is to get in as many offices as possible to collect fees from taxpayers. It's plumbing -- the intake goes in a government office, taxpayers put money in it, and the dough comes out the spigot at NIC.
The board appears oblivious, the CEO likes to dress up as Batman, and the small group of people with a chokehold on the product suite keep a tight lid on what gets communicated to the top. The CEO will make a theatrical show of greeting you, but you will not have access to him since, nor will your opinion be heard. There is a definite "upstairs, downstairs" mentality, where the few with the CEOs ear lord it over the peons doing the work, dribbling out inexpensive trinkets like free snacks and a gaming table to make you think you're valued. Unless you are comfortable phoning it in and doing as you're told, you will quickly become frustrated, and your frustration will turn to rage unless you get yourself out. When you do, your career will have taken a backward turn in direct proportion to how long you stayed there.
