Pros
Company has tremendous potential. If you are new to the NDT industry and are driven to learn on your own you could in theory excel. The company leans heavily on sending techs to classroom training to learn theory of methods. I personally met some great people in the company that I thought were awesome human beings in general. The NDT engineering team although very understaffed does their best to work with everyone and be of help. Most of the techs, the ones who know what they're doing, are very willing to train and teach.
Cons
PAY is the biggest deterrence. Non of the reqs in Florida/ Huntsville have a pay range. If you decide to take a pay cut and you accept a low pay based on the interview of "everyone starts low and once certified you get raises" you'll never get back to your pre-paycut pay. You get a 50 cent stipend per cert. No real raises. That alone will take any and all desire to perform. Even with all the classroom training, when it comes to putting all the training into practice there is a lot of chickens running around with no heads. I personally watched, leads, supervisors and senior techs cheat on certification tests and being helped to cehat by other leads, supervisor and senior techs. These are the techs most rewarded by management too. Management is aware of the cheating, Not by my doing and they're ok with it. Also, you are expected to create inspection techniques but don't get credited. Engineering needs a bit of a shake up as one in particular just has techs do all his work. The team is ran by 3 individuals Tony, Jeff and Brad. They run space coast, Huntsville and Kent. All 3 locations have tremendous attrition. Can't question their "leadership" or you'll be blacklisted. HR is absolute 0 help. They will ignore your emails or do nothing. The stock option plan is all smokes and mirrors. Those of us who decided to take the Blue position as opposed to other offers and or staying at our old positions have lost hundreds of thousands and for some millions in direct pay or stocks from other companies. The stock options cannot be exercised unless the company has an offering (open to non direct employees to purchase). Currently cannot be purchased even as an employee. They also expire. Dangled just out of reach.