Pros
9 hour day shifts, every other Friday off. Flexibility.
Cons
Toxic environment to work. Legacy software with no documentation at all. Go Fish mentality. They throw you in the water and if you swim, you survive. Not a collaborative environment. People hold their knowledge (job security) and you get clues instead of answers when you try to resolve problems. You can go in circles for days trying to get an answer for a simple question or problem you need to solve in the system. There are only few people who know the system. All the others do not work there anymore. Defense industry depends on politics. At the meetings, managers forecast all the great opportunities and contracts to come but in reality they didn't have much. Defense industry has a lot of up and downs. Hence, lot of layoffs.