Houston, we have a problem... - Anonymous employee DCS Corp Employee Review

1.0
29 May 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent benefits package including non-contributory 401K & ESOP. Most work is considered to be embedded program support allowing potential to work along side Civil Servant customer counterparts as an equal within IPT groups. Small office work environment allows potential for local centers of excellence if managed right.

Cons

Work flow very heavily dependent on DOD program funding cycles. Uncommunicative management. Toxic atmosphere of extreme management bullying is tolerated in some areas and enabled by local office politics. Again, if local work areas are run right good things can happen. If not, they can be soul eating pits of despair.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Solid work-life balance. I rarely worked late and all of my projects had distant deadlines. The projects I worked on were pretty relaxed and informal, i.e. a client would ask for support on some project and I'd provide it, no code reviews, agile boards, etc.

Cons

The pay increase schedule is a fairly generous annual adjustment (5-6%) but there's no pay bump for title changes so that's all you get. Additionally, the culture of my team at least didn't really promote career growth or skill learning. My manager gave me a lot of freedom to work as independently, but the tradeoff of that is that I didn't gain experience with code reviews, stand-ups, Agile, etc. Not as important if you already have a lot of experience under your belt but something to consider for a junior engineer.

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