Pros: The product idea is interesting, but many other defense companies are way ahead. There is nothing “special” about the product.

Cons: Before coming here I read a lot of negative reviews and decided to ignore them thinking they were most biased reviews from a small few of disgruntled employees. But now I realize that’s 99% of the employee base. Biggest mistake of my life was coming to this company. The executives use patriotism as an excuse to treat employees like poorly. The middle managers are lying out of their teeth to save their own careers, but lack the technical competence to manage. The product is is decades behind other industry leaders, even China. The organizational technical architecture is terrible, some of the worst I’ve seen in many years. The culture has some real issues; horribly toxic for a working woman. If you have kids you won’t have any time to spend 10 minutes with your kids or bring parents to hospital. You record your timed on 15 minute increments, and the executives have asked teams doing 80 hour a week should be upped to 100 hours a week on average. And please note - any feedback you provide will be held against you on future reviews, even if they “say” it’s anonymous. They are actively using polls to try and weed out all the people who are posting negative reviews on indeed and blind, don’t be fooled. HR is also extremely unhelpful for almost any issue I have brought up to them.

Pros: -Meaningful and noble company mission -Challenging and state of the art work -High autonomy in your work -Opportunity to directly impact the product line -High career growth potential -Some of the smartest and kindest people I've ever worked with -Well funded, prioritize the customer and the engineering. Not the bottom line -No politics or red-tape

Cons: -This is not a place for those who can't challenge themselves beyond a 9-5 work day

Pros: Magic beans (stock options) might be worth something some day.

Cons: Senior/Top management is a bunch of arrogant elitists that expect you to be thankful to work 60+ hour weeks. Even top performers are worried they’ll be fired. Middle management are slave drivers that do not care about mission, which just makes the nonsense “make service members proud” lip service to exploit the government.