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Just speaking of defense contractors, my cousin’s husband works for Harris in Melbourne, he says it’s hideous. Horribly low employee morale. Lots of awful stories on Glassdoor I saw.
What do you do?
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Vinen
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Defense Contractors are all about mediocracy enforced by process.
I worked at one for 2 years as a Software Developer. Never again... never again...
Apparently LOC (Lines of Code) was a metric used by the government to validate the companies productivity.
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Crone
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It's been a while...
Where do you work? Patient monitoring/Healthcare side of a global company.
What do you do? (Title/keywords) Field Service Engineer 2. Follow sales team around and install, upgrade, or sometimes repair patient monitoring equipment in hospitals.
What field/industry? Healthcare
Wages? $80k base, but with overtime should hit low 6 figs.
Bonuses/SEP? Yearly bonus, which this year was like 1% or something.
Benefits? All the basic heath, dental, vision, with a 6% 401(k) match.
I'm in the Northwest region which covers WA, OR, MT, ID, WY, AND AK and so the jobs I'm on are never local hence I'm in a hotel all the time. Been doing it a little over a year and pretty sick of the travel. About a year away from getting my first bachelor's in cyber security and will see where that can take me.
Where do you work? Patient monitoring/Healthcare side of a global company.
What do you do? (Title/keywords) Field Service Engineer 2. Follow sales team around and install, upgrade, or sometimes repair patient monitoring equipment in hospitals.
What field/industry? Healthcare
Wages? $80k base, but with overtime should hit low 6 figs.
Bonuses/SEP? Yearly bonus, which this year was like 1% or something.
Benefits? All the basic heath, dental, vision, with a 6% 401(k) match.
I'm in the Northwest region which covers WA, OR, MT, ID, WY, AND AK and so the jobs I'm on are never local hence I'm in a hotel all the time. Been doing it a little over a year and pretty sick of the travel. About a year away from getting my first bachelor's in cyber security and will see where that can take me.
ZyyzYzzy
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Uh if I recall Harris no longer exists, got bought up by Peraton or something. Or a good portion did at least
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Apparently that’s only one segment of the company. My cousins husband works in some kind of military communications engineering. Still Harris. He’s an electrical engineer not a programmer / in software.
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Noodleface
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Vinen
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It is. I refactored and deleted dead code (All Unit, Integration, etc tests passed without issue). This during the process of implementing new capabilities that required me to clean-up ancient logic that was written by a typical defense contractor coder (IE sucked)
Boss comes to me the next day asking me to check the dead code back in because I would appear to have negative productivity to the Government.
I quit shortly after and cited this as one of my reasons.
ZyyzYzzy
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That's a badly written contract, managed by someone who essentially knows nothing about what they should to manage it.
Noodleface
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I've never run into that situation.
The government is all paperwork and paper trails. They need something like SLOC to measure productivity. There's just no other way to measure what we're doing. You could measure bug reports I guess but that doesn't give you much.
Internally I've never heard SLOC mentioned except when I created a massive new capability and they wanted to know my SLOC.
The government is all paperwork and paper trails. They need something like SLOC to measure productivity. There's just no other way to measure what we're doing. You could measure bug reports I guess but that doesn't give you much.
Internally I've never heard SLOC mentioned except when I created a massive new capability and they wanted to know my SLOC.
alavaz
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GD is one of the bigger contractors now (probably the biggest IT contractor). They just bought up CSRA which was a big merger between SRA and CSC.
The company doesn't really matter all that much though. I love my job, but the customer is what makes it great. GD is just who signs my checks and if they lose the rebid then I'll just work for whichever company wins.
The company doesn't really matter all that much though. I love my job, but the customer is what makes it great. GD is just who signs my checks and if they lose the rebid then I'll just work for whichever company wins.
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Yes. My hubby is a FNP and he makes about 150k working 4 days a week (32 hrs). We run an AirBNB as well which ranges anywhere from 40 to 90k (really depends on the year). My Kaiser position a per diem, so I don't have to work this much. I could just do 3 shifts a month...but, money. Y'know. lol.
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Vinen
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No shit. I'm glad the company I worked for got acquired by a Bay Area company. Getting near Bay Area pay in Boston is amazing.
Best choice in my life was leaving a Defense Contractor to gamble on a startup.
Noodleface
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I don't hate my job, It has benefits - being 20 minutes away, not paying for the commute + parking in boston, not paying boston housing prices, not working in fucking Cambridge (although, Alex would fit in fine). Like anything, I only post the negatives here.
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The biggest problem with my job right now is I am losing a lot of my marketable skills. I work maybe 20 hours a week and haven't been able to keep myself motivated to learn new tech or stay current over the three years I've been contracting here.
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Kuriin
making me feel like the laziest fucking RN in the world right now. Holy shit. I work outpatient surgery as an operating room nurse in Southern California. Monday-Friday, 40 hours a week, no weekends or call. I’m making about 87k a year with 2-3% bumps in pay each year so far. I could make 100-110k a year if I were to work in a hospital and take call but I value my life outside of work too much to do something like that. Benefits are the standard 401k, health, vision, dental, etc. Best job I’ve ever had in my life.