Competitive pay and benefits.
Interesting work.
Feeling like you're contributing to something meaningful.
Great work-life balance, since all time must be logged, and so it's clear how much everyone is actually working.
Executives seem like they have a good vision for the company, and are invested in helping the company stay on top.
Annoying bureaucratic policies.
Because it's defense contract work, you usually can't contribute to open source code or work on your personal computer.
Lots of work involves supporting legacy systems.
Lower management holds the key to making employees happy. The best managers are the ones who trust their employees and fight for their team to help remove obstacles.
It is a structured interview with a phone call and a panel of interviewers. The panel will ask from a standard set of questions. You will have the opportunity to ask questions.
1 interview - 5 people panel. They all ask questions in their realm of expertise, ranging from FPGA to C to C++, etc. Some behavioral as well as technical questions. Overall, fairly easy going.
STAR Format 5 questions. Short, sweet, and only one round of interviews for most positions. It's hard to get through the system initially, but if you make it through, the questions are not that bad.
It is a structured interview with a phone call and a panel of interviewers. The panel will ask from a standard set of questions. You will have the opportunity to ask questions.
1 interview - 5 people panel. They all ask questions in their realm of expertise, ranging from FPGA to C to C++, etc. Some behavioral as well as technical questions. Overall, fairly easy going.
STAR Format 5 questions. Short, sweet, and only one round of interviews for most positions. It's hard to get through the system initially, but if you make it through, the questions are not that bad.