Pros
I was hired at NextWave about a year before the shut down in March 2009. During the short time I was there I met some good engineers.
Cons
NextWave is more or less a holding company for spectrum assets worldwide. The other divisions, including the semiconductor division were just there to fizzle out over time. I sometimes wonder if this was the plan all along and that upper management didn't really even care about this group. They certainly had the resources to keep it going, but just laid everyone off in the end. The lay off was handled very poorly as well, with basically no severance or job placement assistance given to employees. I can't imagine that a single one of NextWave's former employees looks back at the company with any remotely positive impression. I certainly don't.