Tyvak Reviews

Tyvak/Terran Orbital is a company which has been around for a while, but operates in a chaotic, dysfunctional, and delusional environment. The executive management team acts in a bipolar manner. One day they are hands off and the next day they’re micro managing you. The engineering drawings may or may not have revision numbers, because they’ve lost track. Also, the engineering drawings are more of a guideline to follow, since the actual tolerances in fabrication are likely different. This brings up the questions of “Quality” and “Repeatability”, which can lead into other questions when operating under U.S. government contracts. Based on the above, this would explain the high number of employee churn. I no longer can count how many program managers have come and gone, nor do I remember their names. There’s also a high turn over rate in middle management and senior/staff level engineers. Tyvak’s “executives” think they operate in an Agile scrum/kanban/SAFe methodology, but they’re operating in a “hair on fire” and disorganized mode. Nothing is consistent and engineering resources are spread across many projects leaving you over allocated and burning the day light.

I've personally watched the COO march into a lab and cuss out everyone in the room, more than once. He consistently had a bully attitude, which more often then not overreached as poor engineering decisions. The CEO had a nasty habit of spying on engineers, and made little effort to foster a great relationship with the employee. In fact he cussed at and berated the employees within e-mails. Middle management seemed to have learned management skills from the CEO and COO, where are the soft skills? This is the only company I have every worked for where the administration was so awful towards employees.