Pros
Pay was reasonable. Clean facility.
Cons
1) Nepotism, Cronyism at it's finest/worst. 2) Management displays nearly zero experience-based strategic or even tactical vision for people, projects, and the market. Relatively poor technical execution of current contracts. 3) Majority of managers are "put in place" by #1 vs. technical experience and judgement. 4) Excessive emphasis in workforce of hiring "Summer Interns" and fresh out of school engineers precludes sound engineering judgement which can only be provided by those that have been there with real AEROSPACE JOB EXPERIENCE, elsewhere. i.e. older Engineers. 5) Company mantra: Innovate, grow into a leading Aerospace player. 6) Reality: Garage, RC Airplane/transformer/video gamers are put into positions with responsibility, technically, and resent/refuse advice from experienced industry hires. Classic "I'm young and cool, you're not and you are on the way out, don't try to tell me how to do my job.I'm the wave of the future" prevalent attitude among embryonic engineers. 7) Excessively high ratio of "Summer Intern or new college hires to Experienced Senior Engineers" 8) Poor acceptance by developing engineers and management to "mentoring" and Solid team-building. 9) As a result of #1, best engineers and project managers were laid off or left voluntarily over the past several years due to total frustration. INSITU managers used ineffective (sophomoric) winnowing process vis-a-vis starve budgets and cut charge numbers off until mostly cronys, fair haired boys, and nepotists had valid charge numbers. Skilled people left voluntarily for greener grass. Also, more recent layoff process had very little to do with skills or contributions.