Great people and experiences to grow. - Marketing National Security Technology Accelerator Employee Review

The highlight of the years I spent at NSTXL was the people; I worked with some talented individuals and built strong professional relationships. You’ll also get a crash course in government contracting and plenty of opportunities for travel. If you can handle the dry nature of the industry, the technical knowledge you gain is good, but the positive experience ends there.

The revolving door of employee turnover at NSTXL was constant. Someone in our small department was either getting the boot (sometimes without warning) or jumping ship every month. Between the workload and the fear of losing your job, it was impossible to feel settled in. HR and management dug for dirt on each other all the time in weird ways. Lots of drama there. Quarterly company-wide updates usually consisted of the CEO calling in from his cell phone to recap his networking wins in DC. Felt irrelevant to the actual work we did. Career growth is a myth unless you’re great at playing politics, mainly because leadership would rather hire than promote the talent they have. You'll see what I mean after a brief scroll through their LinkedIn new hires and how many job openings they post for such a small org. There was an irony in working in marketing for a company that couldn’t sell itself to its own employees.

Most of the people and the mission is great. The benefits package punches above their weight. Depending upon your manager there may be good career growth, or you could be stagnant.

The CSuite is absolutely toxic. The president, the CEO and the COO spend time trying to either game the system or abuse it for personal gains. I've watched them hire employees to make sure they had what they needed to fire other employees, only just to let that new hire go once they've used them for their purposes. There's been rumors of the president having inappropriate relationships with employees, the COO gets inappropriately drunk at events to the point of standing on bars at events and the current CEO can't ever be bothered to demonstrate real leadership, instead just relies on his friendship.with the president and the fact that Tim has zero desire to return to a full time role. You either play their game or you're gone