Pros
Niche technology and coolness of working in space industry. Good place for a new grad to gain some experience as long as they have an exit plan as career growth is limited to non existent. Can be very reactive to customer requests (good) but the reactive approach is integrated in everything (bad).
Cons
Extremely archaic methodologies. Executives are "bosses" and not leaders at all, they know everything, manage with dictatorship and never seeking to improve. HR practices are very bad and sneaky. HR is probably the worst I've seen (FYI, this is not against low level HR staff who are great, but leadership level). Very cheap company and little investment in employees which is sad because at the working level, manager level (and some directors) you have great people that could make this a wonderful place but this is all erased at the executive levels who often shoot first, maybe ask questions later. Little to no ability to improve what needs to be updated, never learn from past methods and repeat mistakes over and over, again, because executives "know it all". Customer management is constantly walking on that fine line and a lot of business is secured/renewed due to historical monopoly situation. Not recommended to anyone with current work experience as you'll keep scratching your head on why they operate the way they do. This is a put your head down and do your work, agree without dispute the zig zag of directives (they want "yes" people only), and suck up your constant frustrations. Don't be fooled by "low turn over" stories, most of the staff are older folks on historical full pensions (no longer available for new hires) waiting for the right time to retire. Younger departments have very high turn over rates. I recommend most people should avoid this place regardless of the attraction of some of their technology initiatives.
