Pros
The pay is still decent but still isn't keeping up with inflation Cost of living is still relatively low Good co-op/intern program
Kontras
Benefits used to be better. Too much micromanagement, especially from leadership team/corporate level. Decisions that should be made (and used to be made!) by first or second line management now have to go to a VP. Upper management treats employees like children; they give us flowery language and lie to our faces then turn around and do things like hold RIFs and take away remote work. And then they have the gall to ask how we feel about it... Short-term thinking is pervasive Too many sudden knee-jerk reactions by upper management--layoffs, ending remote/hybrid work, etc. Internal politics/"good old boy" network alive and well Management styles trend too much towards "beatings will continue until morale improves" and collective punishment for the sins of a few