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The practical skills you learn will be very specific, as opposed to general training / skills - so you will not likely be able to take those skills with you to another job. The pay is way below market value and raises are based more on relations than on merit. Management tends to be unorganized, leading to crisis before deadlines. Implicitly, you will have to work longer hours. Over time, this proves too frustrating for most individuals and they leave. Long hours of work are worth more to the company than efficient short hours of work. I can understand this, because all work is government contracted and company must spend money for given year or else give back to government. For most individuals, this is not sufficient justification for spending so much time at work. As with most companies, they charge much more for your work than you get paid ( roughly 2 times as much for an hour's work ). Considering the pay is below market value already, and company makes millions yearly, the difference is not acceptable to most individuals.

-The company is too busy to restructure the working dynamics (this seems to be getting better in parts of the company). -Hard to see the overall picture (direction/goals of projects and the company) -Overtime is expected, particularly due to strict Government deadlines. -Stressful due to unrealistic expectations by management. -Difficult to manage work/life balance (unless you don't mind being at the bottom of the worker bees) -Due to above mentioned stress, people burn out quickly and/or become irritable and harder to work with. -Several weeks of paid vacation per year, but depending on your position/department, you can expect to work remotely on your vacation.