Excellent place to start your career and leverage into a good job somewhere else
Pros
- Excellent development opportunities for early career engineers. You get handed a lot of responsibilities off the bat which a senior engineer should really be taking care of - Reasonably good day-to-day environment. Mind your own business and most of the time people won't bother you (with some exceptions)
Cons
- Almost everyone there is either in their early-mid 20s or their 50s. They have a turnover rate that makes most defense companies blush - losing about 3-4% of the engineers in that division per month (not year!) - They have a questionable idea of what the role of Level 1-2 engineers are, and will dump excess responsibilities on and rate employees poorly for not acting like a successful senior engineer while dumping senior responsibilities on them - Pay is about 10-20% lower than most defense contracters (NGC, Raytheon, etc.) and the benefits aren't competitive (high-deductible insurance plan was the only choice when I was there, 401k was mediocre, not much else)
