Pros: Exciting mission and an ambitious vision for the future. Leadership is passionate about growing the company and genuinely cares about bringing in the right talent to support its long-term vision. There is the emphasis on developing people, not just hiring them. There is a genuine effort to give early-career employees meaningful projects and opportunities to take ownership, showcase their skills, gain experience, and grow professionally. There is transparency from leadership and weekly company-wide standup provides visibility into overall company performance, progress, and how different business segments are doing. Compensation is competitive, and there are many talented, dedicated teammates who genuinely care about their work. It’s rewarding to work alongside people who are motivated by solving challenging problems and advancing innovative technology.

Cons: Like any rapidly growing company, there are opportunities to continue improving organizational processes, alignment, and scalability. Maintaining effective communication and collaboration as the company grows will be important.

Pros: Building UAV drones looks and sounds awesome. The VBAT is a tech marvel that is changing the world for the better. UAV's and drones have always been a passion of mine and it was so cool having a career in a field I was passionate about and seeing VBAT grow from humble beginnings.

Cons: From less than 50 employees when I joined, the company had a scrappy can do attitude and accomplished amazing feats with minimal resources. Now to close to 600 employees, Shield AI is now a corporate being, wealthy yes, but plagued with slow moving processes, endless meetings and almost nothing gets done. Management feels like they have a target on their back so they push their employees hard. This is enforced with mandatory 50hr workweek minimums with no overtime but a vague threat that time cards will be reviewed in performance evaluations. Management pushes unreasonable timelines crammed with useless feature additions that suck time and detract from the end result. Brining up or pushing back on the point that that what is being asked is pushing the project backwards gets you labeled as combative. I was told that my boss is right, even when he is not right, he is your boss, end of story. We had provided lunches at one point but they got taken away.

Pros: I joined the company, this was my worst decision

Cons: - My salary was not paid on time and even after a lot of calls, I didn't get a satisfactory resolution. - The senior management here behaves like complete schmucks and randomly assigns tasks to anyone. - They don't speak nicely to their employees and try to use intimidation tactics to exploit others.