Pros
Good immediate team and management. Able to work on interesting projects and the NASA team I work in is amazing. Good work/life balance, focus on health and safety, and coworkers look out for each other. Technical work is rewarding, and there are multiple prototyping shops at Amentum and NASA to use. Good focus on promoting internal ideas for initial funding.
Cons
Pay: I had to do aggressive negotiation to get a competitive salary, Raises are underwhelming, no bonus. Benefits: 401k is basic matching, good fund selection. Health insurance is lacking, moderately expensive and on the lower end of benefits. Tuition: Have not been reimbursed yet, continuing service agreement and length of service requirement for each course. Administrative: Multiple conflicting policies exist and no one knows which one is correct. Months long tickets for reimbursement, travel approval is obscenely hard to get. Links are out of date and nonexistent for intranet pages, policies, and training courses. Travel expenses are nitpicked to the point that time spent on the expense report far outweighs the expenses. Multiple systems with different login credentials.