How are the career development opportunities at Anduril?

It’s great working for a modern company. Most of the employees are nice, company provides food snacks and alcohol. Company is always moving forward and you feel like the company has a great idea of where they are headed. Work life balance is great here!

Terrible structure, extreme lack of awareness when it comes to how a business should operate. A lot of nepotism in this place from hiring to even vendor selection and career advancement. Very throw money at it mentality. Never thought I’d see high school social circles make a professional come back. Get treated like a third class citizen. People are drinking in the office, you see the IT team at happy hour more than you see them work.

Teams have high expectations and work hard to achieve ambitious results. Compared to other companies that achieve the same growth results, I think we do a better job of making sure people aren’t pushing themselves to an unhealthy level. Very unique opportunities for career growth as the company grows.

Can be too much politics as teams/orgs grow and the company reorgs itself. Typical problem of growing companies where people want to defend their turf.

Awesome place to work with a lot of opportunities to build new technologies. People are great to work with. Allows a lot of opportunities to learn new skills

Sometimes the work can be siloed, and more individual contributor focused rather than a team based project.

Company is growing, product is interesting, hottest company in the space

Management in DC is poor, had a single 1:1 the whole year. Do not expect any type of investment from management in your personal career growth. Come here entirely if you are interested in the space and intend to stay in it.

Fast paced environment Career growth opportunities Best benefits in the sector Get to work with top talent in the industry for a great learning experience Management listens to IC input TA does an excellent job weeding out negative personalities Lots of selfless professionals willing to jump in and help when needed Singular vision to upend traditional DoD norms and get DoD the best tech as quickly as possible Upper management is very accessible

Work/life balance can be a challenge, but PTO is encouraged by upper management and PTO is respected (IE not asked to work when on vacation) Not necessarily a con, but like everywhere in the sector, staffing is challenging at times and the no remote work policy while being HQ’d in CA is a challenge.

Good ownership over product. A lot of opportunities for growing

Can be a lot of work hours depending on the due dates

Free food and good benefits.

New company growth pains, lack of career progression tracks within company.

Explosive growth from 3K at the beginning of 2025 to 6K. Still plenty of opportunities for impact and career development but you need to advocate for yourself and find those opportunities.

Poor WLB and unclear expectations for promotions. Outgrowing our offices and parking. Benefits being reduced as we grow bigger to prepare for IPO in the coming years.

Huge potential for long term career. Designing and building amazing new, prototype, and development defense systems

Low pay unless one of the clique at this particular location.

Lots of opportunities to work on high value problems. Most employees are very talented which makes work enjoyable.

Faced paced and long hours