Pros
Some of the engineering staff is intelligent, but you tend to wonder why they’re still at Tyvak. Is this their first job out of undergrad? Do they have a vested interest in the company? Are they friends with someone at a higher level, so they're given more leniency than they would elsewhere? Is the answer, “Yes” to all of the above? If you like working endless week day/weekend hours, dealing with abusive upper management, working under unrealistic timelines, working with rookies, and operating in an overall chaotic environment, then Tyvak’s the place for you. The benefits used to be better.
Cons
Tyvak/Terran Orbital is a company which has been around for a while, but operates in a chaotic, dysfunctional, and delusional environment. The executive management team acts in a bipolar manner. One day they are hands off and the next day they’re micro managing you. The engineering drawings may or may not have revision numbers, because they’ve lost track. Also, the engineering drawings are more of a guideline to follow, since the actual tolerances in fabrication are likely different. This brings up the questions of “Quality” and “Repeatability”, which can lead into other questions when operating under U.S. government contracts. Based on the above, this would explain the high number of employee churn. I no longer can count how many program managers have come and gone, nor do I remember their names. There’s also a high turn over rate in middle management and senior/staff level engineers. Tyvak’s “executives” think they operate in an Agile scrum/kanban/SAFe methodology, but they’re operating in a “hair on fire” and disorganized mode. Nothing is consistent and engineering resources are spread across many projects leaving you over allocated and burning the day light.