Pluspunten
The headquarters office is physically a very nice place with comfortable amenities including a fully stocked kitchen and several lounge areas. The office is pretty small so it's easy to get in contact with the directors and executives when you need to. There are some genuinely kind and extremely intelligent folks at HQ as well, and it's a shame that I no longer get to interact with them on a daily basis. Depending on your position, there's rarely a shortage of work to be done, since you'll be in close contact with a lot of the project managers and directors who are closely engaged in the company's highest-value contracts. You'll be afforded great opportunities to really learn more about what the company does, where it does it, and how it gets done. Again, there are great people who supervise great work done on behalf of this company, and if you're at HQ it's inevitable that you'll get/have to pick their brains.
Minpunten
At the risk of sounding too negative or getting too personal I am going to try and keep this short (really a lot shorter than it could be). Without naming names, there are a few director-/executive-level folks at HQ that, on the basis of them working at HQ alone, I would recommend folks to look for opportunities elsewhere. By the end of my tenure at this company I would literally be shaking in fear coming in to this office every day. What's worse is there is absolutely NO leeway for teleworking even once a week (at least there wasn't for me, I tried negotiating after being there for a few months and was told it wasn't possible). It's hard to imagine that the things that were said to me, and the way those things were said to me, were done in the confines of an HQ of a seemingly respected and well-established company. I would describe the political and social environment of the Powertek HQ as nothing less than paranoia-inducing and off-putting at BEST, and downright and exceedingly hostile and fearful at worst. This is really the main reason I left (aside from the low pay and being told there would be no potential for raise or promotion even after more than a year passing). I would STRONGLY advise you to consider other opportunities if you are going to be working at the Powertek HQ. As mentioned in the Pros of this review, there are some genuinely nice and really quite brilliant people who show up to work every day and are a pleasure to work with. But the bad (read: ROTTEN) apples that work at HQ are reason enough for me to tell anyone considering working at the Powertek headquarters office to consider employment elsewhere in the Rockville, MD or DMV area.