Untenable hours, Not easy commutable location, Lackluster mentorship
Untenable hours, Not easy commutable location, Lackluster mentorship
- A very exciting scope of work depending on your group
- Immediate responsibility for flight hardware depending on the org
- Very nice office space and decent benefits on site
- An exceptional opportunity to venture into ample spaces of opportunity, if you are willing to sacrifice all you have to get good fast to perform in that objective. Self-taught should be your expectation going in.
- Rare opportunities for early engineers to quite literally take on all the responsibility and work they can possibly muster. If you are hungry for fast-paced design and ownership and willing to sacrifice your time in exchange, this is the place for you.
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You stay until the work is done, and the work is never done.
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The divide between experienced engineers and new hires is often met with the expectation that, in opposition to mentorship, the individual is expected to figure it out largely on their own. Sparse resources, a swath of loose context, and a heavy-pressing workload at your back will be your cocktail to get going. Be ready to start the second half of your day when you leave work to mentor yourself.
- Active, not passive, approach to mentorship and engineering development.
- Leverage the skillset of new engineers with their best skills day-one to allocate work more efficiently and create more realistic, tenable work schedules. A get-what's-due-next approach is highly inefficient. In doing so, they are an asset immediately and then are spreading out into all the other arenas that you will venture out to in the extreme ownership ecosystem.
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