Company details

HEADCOUNT

100-499

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Manufacturing & Industrials

WEBSITE

http://www.orqafpv.com/

About the company

Orqa (often branded Orqa FPV) designs and manufactures FPV and unmanned aerial systems, selling into enterprise, industrial, and defense use cases. Careers materials describe a vertically integrated setup across electronics, optics, firmware, software, and in-house manufacturing. A current early-career job post says Orqa products are used in 50+ countries, with over 100,000 units delivered in 2024. LinkedIn lists Osijek, Croatia as the headquarters, with an additional US location in Newark, Delaware.

Locations and presence

Orqa lists Osijek, Croatia as the primary base and Newark, Delaware as a US presence. Early-career roles on the company ATS frequently specify Osijek and on-site work.

Palpable Score

58.0

/ 100

Orqa offers more real entry points than many hardware startups, including intern and junior roles that look like true first and second jobs. The public gap is outcomes and pay transparency: Orqa shares benefits and role scope, but does not give much public proof on junior progression, retention, or salary ranges.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

14.0

/ 20

The company is actively advertising early-career roles with “Intern/Junior” naming, including “Intern/Junior Drone Firmware Developer” in Osijek.
Orqa runs an always-on “Student Opportunities” listing that invites students to apply even when a perfect role is not open.
The company posts multiple “Junior” roles across different functions on the same ATS, suggesting junior hiring is not a one-off.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

12.0

/ 20

The company’s early-career job ads lay out concrete responsibilities and required skills, with clear “What you’ll do” and “What we expect” sections.
Orqa routes applications through a named ATS (PontaHR) with consistent “Apply Now” flows for most roles, which is more predictable than email-only hiring.
The company also appears in at least one external hiring post that asks candidates to email a CV and motivation letter, which is less transparent on process stages than the ATS listings.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

11.0

/ 20

The company promises “internal workshops & lectures” and “career development & growth opportunities” inside early-career job ads.
Orqa frames day-to-day work as hands-on testing in an “office drone testing playground,” which suits learning-by-doing early in a hardware career.
The company does not publish role-specific onboarding, buddy, or first-90-day plans in the early-career postings reviewed, so support quality is hard to judge from the outside.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

12.0

/ 20

The company does not publish salary ranges in the early-career postings reviewed, which caps confidence on pay fairness for new grads.
Orqa lists a fairly concrete benefits set in job ads, including performance-based bonuses, meal and transportation compensation, extra vacation days, health check-ups, and sports or wellness support.
The company advertises these early-career roles as full-time positions with benefits, which is a stability signal compared with unpaid or repeated short contracts.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

9.0

/ 20

The company shares business traction in at least one early-career job post, including “100,000 units delivered in 2024” and use in “50+ countries,” which suggests a growing environment where responsibilities can expand.
Orqa has no public Glassdoor reviews at the time of writing, so there is no usable outside evidence on early-career retention, manager quality, or promotion experiences.
The company’s LinkedIn headcount visibility suggests a mid-sized team, but Orqa does not publish promotion pathways or early-career progression examples, limiting outcome confidence.