Pros
* Excellent work life balance. Your work and work load is up to you. * Coworkers are very nice, and for the most part actually care about helping the customers succeed. * Benefits are good. I will say, I never felt angry or upset coming in to work. The work load is pretty much whatever you want to make it, and the people you're surrounded by are friendly. However, you will get to a point where you realize your ambition, talent, and career is dying. Overall, I recommend the company to people who are just starting out, or later in their lives. If you got ambition, you'd do better elsewhere. If you wish to be able to coast, this is a fine place.
Cons
* Management is useless. This is especially true at the executive and upper levels. I mean, come on, how does the CEO have a 30% approval and still have his job? Middle management doesn't provide much help in advancing your career or advocating for you in any way. Usually, they barely even know what your project is, or what you do day to do. Their job ends at listening to your yearly review. * Useful work is hard to come by. Many projects are plain old seat filler paper pushing, or have the semblance of usefulness, but will lead to nowhere. * Things are too shrouded. A lot of the work is reproductions of previous work due to real or made up (security theater) restrictions. * Pay becomes quickly non-competitive at the L2-4 ranges. There's no adjustment for actual performance, only a facade. Yearly adjustment is just divided up equally among staff, +/- a few shekels. * The government has a clear bias towards the DC area even though they're supposed to be for the whole nation. Work, opportunity, networking and so on is all focused down in DC area. You will quickly realize you're invisible and have no opportunity up in Bedford. * Overhead on projects is solely there to make your job harder and worse.