Pros
Free M&Ms Nice campus Great health insurance Can retire in place Nice people. Tolerant of everything except demands for accountability.
Kontras
Little opportunity to advance Horrible technical management tolerated. Little accountability Matrix management org. Managers can evade genuine software shortcomings by scamming priority settings. While nonsensical external "bugs" can be escalated based on $$$, internal bugs can be postponed forever. Infighting between teams, via abuse of internal bug reporting and prioritization, tolerated/ignored. Internal tools are non-standard and complex. Time spent learning is a career dead end. C is everywhere, and it's super non-standard. Almost no C++. Java work at least builds transferable skills, but the anointed get way much leeway to pad their resumes by foisting nonsense onto everyone else. The Agile infestation is alive and well here. A few sensible principles in theory, thoroughly perverted in practice, cynically misinterpreted and exploited by the usual rouges' gallery of hucksters getting paid for their "expertise".