Pros
TerpSys has been awarded one of the best places to work in Washingtonian Magazine, and the Washington Business Review for many years in a row. This is for a reason - TerpSys is a great place to work. Everyone from the President down to your co-workers are great people, who are working for a company they like – not just a job. This does show in employee morale. TerpSys provides an extraordinary number of extracurricular ways to get involved with the company. TerpSys is also very active in the community, supporting any number of worthwhile causes – Komen Race for the Cure, National Alzheimer’s Association, among others.
Cons
With all the greatness surrounding TerpSys - there do have to be some downsides. In my experience, the biggest downside is the micro managing, suffocating nature of upper management. Everything down to your e-mail signature is standardized, and dictated by management. Each month the entire company treks to downtown Bethesda for a staff meeting, and you MUST wear a company issued shirt. The TerpSys brand/message is instilled into each employee, and we are expected to live up to that brand. There is an elevator speech that we should commit to memory - just in case we're riding in an elevator and asked "What is TerpSys?" These are the sort of issues that management spends much too much time focusing on.