Anduril

It used to have great compensation and benefits, and multiple perks prior to explosive growth. You'll work with some of the smartest people from multiple industries.

The Palantir Mafia at Anduril is extreme, and other orgs are seeing their own silos based on which org was acquired and brought in. Microsoft, AWS, and Palantir - notably very software heavy - run a lot of politics within Anduril, moving the needle from very engineering heavy (Old Anduril) to kingdom building.

Further compounding the negative trend in employment, the Business Operations folks operating under Tom Bosco are destroying the ability to manufacture at scale with home-brewed and vibe-coded applications and pitting department heads against one another. This is impacting the ability to manufacture at scale, and has created a hostile environment where "King Tom" can maintain control. He has failed upwards, and has been absolutely unchecked.

There are a number of other "leaders" that similarly have pushed the Jack Welch school of management protocol of pitting business lines against one another for resource management. That may have worked at some point, but the long-term residual benefit of having mutually supported business lines and a SINGLE variant of Lattice (not the 6-8 that exist now) is absolutely necessary otherwise Anduril will continue to be a model where multiple business lines create reciprocal, non-integrative products.

Remove leaders that have "failed up".

Stop pitting business lines against one another.

Kill off products that have no chance at success; be honest here.

Stop hiring from the same talent pool. If you want to differentiate yourself, you need to stop hiring from the same 3-4 companies, and you are just creating toxic group think and reducing the ability for actual engineers to dream and execute big.

Eliminate the Business Operations role. They merely serve as a shadow government that creates chaos by force functioning changes they never have to own. They are accountable for nothing, but have full purview to destroy any and all processes in flight. If you don't build or own, you should not be able to consult, period.