Pros
- Work/life balance flexibility is top-notch. We are encouraged to take time off and generally there are few issues with last-minute requests off. - Well known company. This is a great spot to have on your resume. - My con list is lengthy. My direct management, co-workers, and extremely generous work-life balance is the main reason I stay at this point.
Cons
- Lack of opportunity for advancement unless you are in senior leadership. I have been with this company for 3 years and have watched us hit a lot of walls in the past few months, especially with the delay of Legion. At this point we are basically told to keep working with our heads down and continue to do what we do. Management seems unsure about opportunities for advancement (speaking on my team.) - This company will preach about "competitive pay" but they don't seem to take a comprehensive look at this. Their contractors in Puerto Rico (who we have since acquired) are paid less than $9/hr for their 3D Production work. Standard geospatial technicians and analysts on the 3D Production team (US based, part of Maxar) generally make less than 50k/year. - Dan Jablonsky, CEO, has had a really distasteful attitude towards criticisms the past few months. We have been told "the door is open to leave", "take a look in your wallets", among many other tone-deaf suggestions. Sure, we can up and leave any time, but this is how you lose the talent you pride yourselves on. - The company asked *us* to submit ideas for cost-saving strategies because of the loss of revenue. I don't think many of the folks who you are asking to develop such critical plans for are within the pay range of that kind of work. - Senior management absolutely REFUSES to acknowledge the very valid feedback from folks who are back in office that can prove the ineffectiveness of this policy. Many folks were hired full-time remote with a promise of staying remote. Now there is a 3 day in office, 2 day hybrid policy for folks within a "commutable" range (something like 40 miles or 1.5hr driving.) I will not be surprised if they start to lay off individuals hired full time, fully-remote not within this range. The Herndon office literally doesn't have the room to accommodate all of the people who need access. The tax-saving initiative they offer for costs of public transportation is a joke. - Feedback isn't taken too seriously from HR. They ask for it and always come back with some kind of justification, robot response, or don't acknowledge the main question/point at all. - Check-ins are required every quarter. This is way too much and I am often left with nothing to talk about after the first one. - Moving around internally is hard. They usually would rather hire externally than deal with hiring internally specifically for cleared positions. - Work culture values are laughable at this point.
