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- Stability; difficult to get fired - If you stay long enough, opportunities to move up because everyone else leaves (opportunities for advancement through attrition) - Maybe an ok place to start your career, gain experience - Autonomy. Staff are more like independent contractors. As long as you can find projects to cover your time, you can move around internally to whatever job(s) you want to do. management has no interest in whatever you’re doing so you have a crazy amount of autonomy that you couldn’t get away with elsewhere.
- Management does not care about staff. My management (plural) frequently sleep through meetings that they mandated. - pay/ benefits are meh. Could be worse, could be better - infrastructure, tools, processes are nonexistent or arcane. If you stay too long, your skills will die. A lot of unnecessary manual effort. Management has never worked anywhere else, so they don’t know any better. - high turnover, over 50% on weapons defense programs. Some groups have 100% turnover. If you’re one of the last ones on the Titanic, you could inherit work left behind. - interview is a half day
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