Pros
Good/free coffee, plenty of parking spots, standard vacation/sick leave, employees are allowed to work from home sometimes, standard 401(k)
Cons
The only people for whom it’ll make sense to accept a job offer from this company are the new grads with zero experience and those who want a green card through work. If you have a remote chance of working for someone else, you should follow that route. This is a small company in the SBIR business. That means that your work load will be extremely high – all the time. Many of your weekends will be spent at the office. Most of your evenings will be spent doing work at home to meet deadlines. At this company, managers take pride in telling employees how, one time, they had someone come in on Christmas Day (no, I’m not joking) and finish their SBIR proposal. Speaking of proposals, three/four times a year, you can forget about having a life – you’ll have to write proposals. When the proposal season comes, things go crazy here. You’ll be severely limited in resources trying to get your work done. You’ll not have the Matlab package or the CAD software that you need for your work, but you’ll be expected to do an “excellent” job without them. If you need access to scientific papers - good luck, because the company does not subscribe to any of the databases. There are a handful of really intelligent people here. But most of your colleagues will not even speak English well, let alone articulate complex scientific matters. If you are under the impression that professor-grade intellectuals are doing cutting-edge research here, you’ll be disappointed most of the time. The health insurance they offer is below standard.
