Pros
Engineers are given tons of respect, and there are literally no businesspeople or marketing people getting in their way. The benefits are very good (4 weeks time off your first year, 5 weeks thereafter). Salaries are quite variable, it all comes down to how agressively you negotiate, but many employees are making less than they could make somewhere else because they like the company.
Cons
White Oak's engineers are massively more arrogant than they have any right to be, IMHO, and management encourages this. Because all the work is classified, its hard to know how our products compare to those built by others, and nobody has ever expressed interest in finding out. Our products generally work, but not technically all that impressive, IMHO, compared to the things everyone knows the government (not to mention commercial companies) already knows how to do.
