2.0
22 Nov 2011
Current employee
San Diego, CA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Pay is decent compared to other defense contractors in the area.
Cons
Many managers and "engineers" are former enlisted military without higher education (in fact many are high-school dropouts who took the GED exam), hired right out of the military because they had security clearances. Thus there is a strong workplace bias against those with university degrees. Virtually no career development is available. There is basically no equity sharing; no options or common stock are made available to employees. Backstabbing and destructive politics are daily occurrences, but confrontation-avoiding management simply turns away and lets the dust settle where it may.