Pros
- Okay salary and bonus - 6% granted pension after working there for 5 years - Mid level managers are very flexible when it comes to working from home, sick time, and vacation schedules. - Great work life balance - Great tuition reimbursement plan (if you use/can use it)
Kontras
- Huge Egos - Huge layoffs - Utterly incompetent management - Exorbitantly greedy senior management - Extremely bureaucratic - Completely subjective yearly reviews (I've been on both sides of that subjectivity). - Eons behind the times when it comes to: + Organizational structure (hierarchical / functional as opposed to flat / customer oriented) + Technology (no salaried employee I know of believes in the benefits of relational databases over mainframe flat files, waterfall, BRUF development is the mantra, programmers know and love JCL/SAS/COBOL and don't want to switch, less than 1 in 10 IT people in the organization are even familiar with a programing language, framework, or software methodology created in this millennium). + Proper compensation + Supply chain management (partnering with fewer, but higher quality suppliers, valuing collaboration over contract negotiation, etc)