Sinking Ship - Manager, Software Engineering HII Employee Review

1.0
29 Jan 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

None compared to its peers

Cons

If you're a software developer you will spend most of your time requesting IT approval for individual packages, version by version, instead of writing code. If you use dockerhub you'll end up downloading externally and transferring images over to build containers. It takes too long to get approval through IT (and it's only for a single version). If there's a binary download as part of your CI/CD, you'll have to approve every version update to it (and occassionally it will break as they change policies with no communication). If you're a react web developer, you'll have to hack in react dev tools since the plugin is banned. Streaming music is banned. Need a rust crate? You get the picture, the list goes on and on. Their security solution is a man-in-the-middle attack that peeks at all your data, including personally identifiable information, and has a web whitelist like a high school computer lab. Do you prefer WSL? Too bad, it won't work reliably with the MitM attack. In the end, HII is a ship builder that recently decided to seek the margins of software development without actually understanding the domain, or building the infrastructure and expertise to support it.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
18 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Remote Work, Flex Schedule, Benefits are decent enough.

Cons

It is very much a boys club between management, leads, and HR. HR is there to protect the company, not you. The moment you have something crazy happen (and you will because most people in positions of power are old retired navy guys who cant even work a computer usually and would rather praddle on about "the good ole days") and you report it to HR, you immediately will be retaliated against, even when HR says you wont. Its tough to say how you wont when they immediately inform your supervisor. I also hate how they are an "inclusive" company, and yet I have been called more slurs and received more backlash for being LGBT when its not even being presented, I just want to log in, work, ask questions, log off.

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