Engineering Hell - Cybersecurity/Network Administrator VTG Employee Review

2.0
11 Nov 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Salaries are competitive -Opportunity to work with multitude of vendors and products -The technical team members are generally great

Cons

-Buzzword hell, prepare for fake agile, scrum, kan-ban, and whatever else sounds cool to feign productivity to the customer -Learning is falsely encouraged, even a CBT Nuggets account for engineers was turned down -The mission is completely ambiguous -Busy work is valued over deep research and understanding of the technical -The confused middle management has started responding with micromanagement and fake scrum (daily 15 minute meetings, hour logs, activity tracking, end of day reports, etc.) -You will not feel like an engineer who can make technically informed decisions -You will not feel like a consultant either since the customer wants to do their own thing without asking engineers for their opinion -Complete absence of enterprise IT structure has set all teams and engineers up to fail, you will not be able to change this

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5.0
2 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good Culture, Bonus, Healthcare, Game Tickets, and Communicate HR, generous PTO.

Cons

Pay can be lower than the market, especially compared to major companies.

4.0
26 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good program managers, fulfilling work, food at HQ if you ever visit.

Cons

Pay isnt competitive for the field. VTG is more engineering heavy, so analyst and admin roles arent treated as seriously when it comes to salary. No real upward movement for on-site employees, you are assigned you government billet and don't get any promotions to level 2, level 3, etc. PTO and other benefits are average for defense contractors in the area.

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