Typical boring defense job - Software Engineer II BAE Systems Employee Review

1.0
15 Aug 2008
Recommend
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Pros

We work on a 9/80 schedule (every other Friday off) You can live by the beach and not have a terrible commute. some pretty smart engineers. a decent number of young, social engineers

Cons

boring projects. Unless you really LOVE working on an image library, your pretty much can't find a job that doesn't involve this in some way. Most management is ridiculously incompetent, including senior level. IRAD's are fairly well run however. It is very easy to get pigeon-holed and there is little room for advancement. Pretty much every software engineer that works here, hates their job, and employee morale is pretty low.

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