Pros
The office/facilities at the HQ (Reston) are decent. Competitive salary, then again they are a federal contractor.
Cons
Career mobility-I had never worked in an office that literally has no plan/professional development options for their corporate staff. There was also no purpose in your pitching a business idea because it wasn't making its way to upper management. They could care less. Compensation-offers were made without rhyme or reason, so someone with less experience could be making significantly more than you just because they asked. Lack of job security-even if you weren't a contractor, there was always talk of layoffs especially around the sequester. Management did absolutely nothing to put people's minds at ease. Apparently after I left they did lay off many people in HR/recruiting. Those who didn't get fired, quit. Lack of quality hires/employees-The recruitment process was akin to throwing spaghetti against the wall for both the corporate office and contract positions. Management didn't really care about the quality of candidates just as long as the positions were filled asap. Dysfunctional processes- In addition to management not doing their homework on some of the global systems used daily (and being to cheap to fix the issues) , some of the basic processes for approvals were highly inefficient. This made everyone's jobs significantly harder.
