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5.0
Apr 13, 2026
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Pros

Steady work and interesting projects. Really positive culture with engaged Employee Resource Groups. A good mix of long-term managers, and those moving up. Reverse commute from a good chunk of Los Angeles along the 101. Benefits standard good. Getting paid for extra hours during crunch times is nice vs. standard salary for most engineering companies. Still salary when there are brief lulls in projects.

Cons

Bad commute from Ventura Big return to site push even for roles that don't need it.

5.0
Apr 24, 2026
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Pros

Management is excellent. Benefits (except for PTO) are excellent, especially the 401k matching and the HSA instead of the FSA. Pay is excellent.

Cons

They use a system called PTO (Paid Time Off) that gives you a fixed amount of every kind of time off every year. If you use it for sick time, then you have get vacation time. I volunteered to take unpaid time off so as to save my PTO for vacation, but I was turned down. Plus, you cannot purchase additional PTO time via salary deduction.

3.0
May 20, 2026
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Pros

Job security, nearly impossible to get laid off, Hours for most people are consistent, generally a good benefits package. You are able to jump around laterally within the company very easily. Once you get to T3 and above the salary becomes decent for prime standards. Easy, almost non-existent interviews.

Cons

Not moving fast enough in the current defense market. Lots of red-tape. Turnover at specific sites are insanely high. Promotions take forever and the increase in salary is minimal. They don't care about retention. They will let you walk and give your replacement a sign-on bonus and a higher salary. There are a lot of slackers and old timers riding it out till retirement. Only about a 1/3 of this site is actually productive. Yes-men get into management and ignore technical experts. Agile hiring is a huge issue where people are just thrown onto random teams. Easy, almost non-existent interviews allow people without relevant backgrounds to join teams. Every site operates completely differently.

4.0
Apr 15, 2026

Loved it till I didn't

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Pros

Ability to move around different sites/sectors/roles Stable projects

Cons

Culture can be vastly different between sites. They didn't support woman in management at one site in particular. Slow salary increases

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