Relevant to all:
For the last year (2018-2019) Inovar has been struggling to recover from moving to a new building, which set their production behind by more than they anticipated. They've lost some customers and had to scale back their workforce as a result. I'm confident they'll recover in time. (Historically they've upgraded or moved about once every ten years, so expect that around 2028.)
Most office (as opposed to production-floor) employees are in a big cube farm. The cubicles are high-quality, but they're still cubicles, and they're all 2-person affairs. Fortunately, IT/Software has their own separate offices, as does Accounting.
The production floor is loud. The office cube farm is isolated from all that noise, but IT/Software is not. A fair amount of noise comes through the doors/walls.
Mil/Aero contracts means high-ish security and lots of inspections to maintain company compliance certifications. This doesn't affect the IT/Software department very often, but it's a thing.
Relevant just to IT/Software:
No testers, no automated testing. We just started doing peer testing / code reviews a month ago.
No one-click deployment, no scheduled releases
Not relevent for software devs, but IT would care: The server room has water-based fire suppression, despite repeated warnings to upper management that this is an extremely bad idea. This was not corrected when a new building was purpose-built for Inovar.
Back-end software is coded in VB.net, which is C#'s ugly cousin.
The code base is...messy. Lots of older pages are 10k+ lines long, all inline. Newer areas are better, breaking out models and reusable code.
Department is currently all-male. There's some low-key sexism which would probably not be expressed if the department had a decent mix of genders. (I don't know of any other departments with this problem.)
