Current college student here. What is it like to work for defense contractors?

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  • As for quirks, the biggest quirk is that you usually need to get a security clearance, and that means no drugs. As far as the tech goes, depends on what company you're working for and what government product they produce. If it's software for an otherwise physical product like a missile or an AGV, then it's probably gonna be some old stable language like C, with something like Java being used on the server side to talk to the machine. Meanwhile, there's definitely Python work sprinkled all throughout everything, and there's certainly parts of the government working on Docker or Kubernetes stuff. Like here's a completely unclassified government project that I've contributed to. It uses Docker and Yaml to automate tasks.

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