Pros
Before Physical Optics Corporation was acquired by Mercury Systems: Good benefits, work/life balance, good people.
Cons
After Mercury acquired POC: Still good people in Torrance, but worse benefits, they wouldn't tell us the details until the last minute, even after people continually asked. They wouldn't take the lessons learned from POC and implement them. Mercury claimed multiple times they wouldn't lay anyone off, "We don't want to break you," they said. Then a month after the acquisition was final, mass layoff...The press reports talked about all the good things, how revenue is expected to be so good, and conveniently left out the part about layoffs, which according to one report, would save a few million dollars when expected revenue was one billion dollars... I can't help but wonder if everyone still with Mercury is fearful of another layoff, since this one was so unexpected with all the reports of supposed good financial health, etc.