All the teams I've worked on are overworked, mainly due to two reasons:
1. Deadlines are frequently unrealistic as management has the motto, "Shoot for the stars, land on the moon." Sounds nice, but in practice, it leads to us becoming burnt out from constant crunch.
2. Peraton pays VERY FAR below market rates across the board. Annual raises will also not cover inflation. This in turn leads to Peraton usually only being able to hire the desperate and the, "less than talented." Even amongst government contractors like Northrup, Lockheed, etc, Peraton's pay is quite below market rates. This in turn leads to Peraton not being able to compete with competitors for the best hires which then in turn leads to a minority of employees having to carry the slack of their coworkers. In my anecdotal experience, it seems far more common at Peraton to find that "Atlas" employee having to do the work of 5 people. Peraton hires a lot of temp agency contractors, which isn't uncommon with companies in these sectors, but these hires aren't the best quality, usually, nor are they invested in the work they do because they're being churned through and spat out.
On all the teams I've worked on, management usually never pushes back on clients, leading to us having never-ending moving goal post situations and micromanagement from the clients. On one particular team, I also saw that management's attitude of always capitulating to the client, led to a toxic dynamic where the client was unprofessional and rude, cracking jokes at us and our work during presentations. In this situation, management had the attitude that we should just smile and take it. It would have been nice to see management actually stand up and defend their employees and ask for professionalism and basic courtesy.
Not all the teams I've worked on, but most are using tech stacks that are quite archaic and bad. It causes efficiency issues, tech debt, and makes for a poorer product due to limitations. But in all my struggles to push for modernization, I've been met with an attitude of, "Well who's going to pay for it?"
Also note, a decent number of the stellar reviews on here read as if they were written by someone in HR trying to boost Peraton's reputation. I have doubts about their authenticity.
