4.0
30 Dec 2011
Current employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
- The mission and impact on real events can't be beaten. - In general, the workforce is among the most dedicated I've ever seen. - Overseas opportunities. - Work/life balance
Cons
It's in the Federal Government, so you have all the same cons: - Bad senior management, severe lack of leadership - Poor performers shuffled around and not fired. - Lack of pay equality to private sector professionals doing the same job - Over-reliance on contractors at the expense of caring about staff in technology fields - Odds of promotion from GS-15 to the executive levels are extremely remote. The executive managers get big bonuses each year while the rest of us on the GS scale get nothing.