Pros
- Heart of El Segundo, CA (near other Aerospace companies, so easy to leave without moving) - Nice view of 105 Freeway and LAX (but with all the accompanying noise) - Idiots get paid decent taxpayer-funded salaries - "Engineers" never have to produce an actual product, can just pretend they do - Great if you are ex-military and have limited real-world skills
Cons
- Low industry salaries except for the in-bred white management (all ex-military) - Turnover very high (retention rate less than 30% in engineering group over last to 2-3 years) - "Engineering" is mostly manipulating Excel spreadsheets and producing Powerpoints on a truly bizarre Booz-Allen Powerpoint style - Management claims to focus on diversity, but LA office is lily white male and one white female. Token African Americans and Hispanics are delivery and maintenance personnel