Pros
Flexible schedules. Get your 80 hours in every two weeks and you're gold. Cafeteria is good (anything can get boring if its the only place you go) Great social environment among younger employees. Organized club events are actively promoted by senior management (Toastmasters, cultural clubs, etc)
Cons
-New employees are dropped on a program and not trained how to do their jobs. They are often tasked to do things without being told what resources are available to accomplish those tasks. Furthermore, older non-management employees abuse younger employees by pawning off frustrating, boring, or demeaning work on them. -Management does not support young employee growth. What little training there is, is focused primarily on Company and Government policy and procedures, not learning skills which would add value to the products. -Antiquated document control practices (at least at the Fullerton site). Need for manual signatures means all documents, forms, etc are printed, signed, scanned, then vaulted offsite and forgotten. This includes big schematic prints and mechanical drawings - a huge waste of paper and a time drain getting each one printed. This is 2010, time to start using e-signatures and PDFs! And the worst one of all: Supply Chain. They exist to prevent you from buying things, not to help you. Ordering anything takes piles of paperwork and literally (yes, I mean literally) months of bird-dogging for the simplest of things like a $100 server rack. Can get fired for trying to circumvent them, and no petty cash accounts.