Pros
401k matching great, health benefits industry standard. The bonuses are great despite missing all actual goals last year (I.e. DreamChaser to the cape), especially for senior leaders.
Cons
Toxic leadership, very top heavy with too many directors, VPs, SVPs for the number of products they are putting out. No clear organization because of this. All the bureaucracy of a legacy company without the aerospace expertise leads to painfully slow progress. You are constantly creating PowerPoints to justify the simplest approval, by the time it goes through the undefined approval process you have to start over because constant reorganization has changed who is ‘responsible’. Essentially progress grinds to a halt. Company brags about the almost $300million Series B funding round ‘success’ but Tom Vice actually failed to secure the funding needed to continue long term. He attempted to get Saudi backers but they saw the reality, DreamChaser is being built in a warehouse pretending to be a clean room, led by a mostly aviation background leadership that have no real understanding of the launch industry. Extensive layoffs are coming down the pipeline in order to keep DreamChaser going.
