Pros
Oddball is a remote first company. Management really wants to try to make it pleasant. They have a great culture and yearly sync ups. Everyone is very happy and welcomes new employees. Stable stable stable. A job that is guaranteed to last through the next few years and be mostly immune to economic problems. You are primarily working on government contracts using the latest techniques of 2012. If you need to get just basic experience before moving on this is the place. Pay is about average for the work not too spectacular. Your work isn't closely monitored everyday. Some perks such as business and education stipend. Mostly unlimited vacation. Easy to take time off for emergencies or just vacation. Surprisingly good benefits and retirement options. The company is growing rapidly and has many open positions. Passionate about helping people and working for the government.
Cons
With government clients comes the lack of inertia for moving forward. There are times when it takes several weeks to just get to a point where you can get a denial for a change and have to start over. The engineers you're working with range from skilled to not skilled and in between. Patchwork between multiple vendors working on a single service makes it difficult to get things done. Being a government contract less than skilled engineers tend to last much longer and get promoted. The less you know the more likely you are to be a senior engineer. You are not going to be working on anything very sexy or new in this position. Pay is average, no opportunity to get raises or promotions as this is all government contract and set in advance. No moving up or laterally between projects. Pigeon holed to where you first start. Hard to get answers to spending questions from Oddball finance group. Will usually take several emails to finally get attention for simplest questions. Too many meetings. Just too many meetings. Quarterly reviews will ping you for something you did months before and no one mentioned it at the time. Then keep mentioning it again and again in later reviews. The one little nothing is still getting brought up many months later. You have to provide you're own work equipment. You have some opportunity to pay for it via the spending account.