Pros
* Pockets of strong product areas and some really excellent co-workers and mentors * Fairly low pressure and non-demanding environment * Good benefits resulting from RSA being tied to EMC
Kontras
RSA, once the quintessential security company somewhere lost its mojo along the way. With forced retirements, layoffs, distractions of acquisitions, spin-offs, reorgs and more product development and execution has taken a back seat to individual employee survival. RSA is a great company where unfortunately many of the go getters upped and got themselves a new job within the EMC federation or elsewhere which left many "tailings" behind combined with new people who have a decent learning curve even under the best of circumstances. Do not expect much support with people fighting for themselves to survive. Though there still is pockets of greatness in the company still, it is getting harder to find them. The next few years will tell if RS can reclaim its venerated security seat it used to have.