Pros
Good location to work at, easy to take unpaid time off. Paid housing and tax free salary.
Cons
Program Manager on down micromanages to the point where they decide what type and fragrance of of toilet paper to order for the men's room. Very intrusive and demoralizing to morale. Company tries to scare off or fire people the last two years of the contract so they can be more competitive for the next contract- all that happens is the hard workers and knowledgeable staff leave and you have to do 3-4 jobs to make up the loss of those employees Absolutely ZERO employer loyalty to employees. Managers are all yes men who beat you up to get their misguided agendas/projects done and threaten to fire you if you don't comply. Good old boy network, management hires their buddies who most have no management skill or technical understanding. No one ever moves up, and the few that do get carrot dangling in front of them for salary increase until they get fed up and quit. New people not up to par with what is required to perform tasks. Problem employees allowed to create havoc and never get written up or counseled/removed. Pay raises ludicrous as seasoned staff gets less than one percent and clueless newcomers get 5%. Make you stay for three years by holding your relocation/repatriation back to US hostage. All other companies require only one year -this one requires 3. 401k a joke, they take it all back if you quit one day before being vested for the measly 3% they give you. Two years ago, payroll forgot to take out 401k deductions for a pay period and told people they had to do it themselves. Law does not allow you to do this so you lost one months deposit to your plan. HR non existent and doesn't work for you as a worker but for management. HR seems like they can never find people to come work for them in Overseas. Hundreds of open jobs and seldom any new hires. Extremely oppressive environment where most shops do nothing but look busy watching TV and push their work down lower shops shop whose managers have no clue how to fight back and not take it. Example is HD personnel doing network and IA shops job. Management totally condones this. Work entails putting out fires rather than being proactive and avoiding fires. Changes to procedures entails mandatory management meetings that includes all managers in contract who cannot appreciate or are even stakeholders, let alone understand what the change entails.
