4.0
25 Oct 2009
Former employee
Santa Clara, CA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Once you get familiar with the culture and people, you realize that this is a great place to work for. Your peers and managers are very supportive of you, be it professionally or supporting you in balancing your social/family life. The work is great and very interesting, while it lasts. Also, it offers great benefits, even better than most commercial companies, like Apple, where they work you to death and offer you little compensation in return.
Cons
Because this is a Defense business, all contracts hang on the hands of politicians. If they decide to pull the plug on your contract, then most likely you'll be laid off. In other words, the work is stable as long as the contract is not taken away by politicians.