[ringaroundthetx]

Any random full stack engineer off the street could apply to any government contract, reply to RFPs, and bid on anything.

Everyone is already doing it. You can make $200,000+ a few years out of college as a software engineer if you go the TS-SCI clearance route, from any third tier state school. Oh look and now you can also apply to Facebook with that skillset and clearance.

A company with thousands upon thousand of full stack engineers getting work for full stack engineers? Wow sound the alarms lets speculate on what the contract is!

And yes, they probably also are trying to leverage their broad infrastructure for department of defense applications.

[rhexs]

FYI the average defense contractor engineer isn't paid nearly that much (as compared to true private industry) and puts in quite a bit of free OT. Senior/PM salaries may get that high in DC but I don't think that is anywhere near the norm. There can be a lot of money made in defense, but it's almost always in the marketing/sales/guys winning the contracts. Most of those guys are ex-government.

Along with a disappointing salary, you also get industry leading job instability. Enjoy job cuts every two years -- sign up to be a defense contractor today!