Pros
Moved towards modern technologies and architectures. Benefits on par with job market. Large corporate users/customer base.
Kontras
Work life balance is a thing of the past. Pay is half of market rates. Development senior leadership is overly frugal and inexperienced; they set unrealistic goals with no objective reasoning and then blame/punish the productive roles for failing to meet them. Development senior leadership is only concerned with getting something on the product listing; no regard for quality or product viability. Development senior leadership greenlights projects that aren’t ready and short-circuits their own product lifecycle processes, leading to serious delays from research. Development senior leadership is completely inflexible about product release dates for literally no reason other than to get products listed as fast as possible, leading to release of unusable software. All members of leadership constantly make bad decisions for short term gains because they are using their roles as a springboard into higher leadership and leave before they face any consequences. Product Managers have their own reporting line so they have completely different goals and success criteria not aligned with their development teams. Product Managers have no scrum training nor experience, don’t come to scrum ceremonies. Development managers who are brand new to the company think senior developers are inept because they haven’t quit already, don’t consult them on major decisions, and then blame them when everything backfires. Development managers have no B2B nor enterprise software experience, and fail to recognize the inherent complexity.