Vacation package
Employment benefits - Medical
Thousand Oaks is nice place to stay
Good balance of professional and personal life
Cons
Less focus on professional growth
Stagnant career growth - promotion is difficult
Middle management doesn't focus a lot on employee issues
Work is not very challenging
Not lot of learning opportunities
Everyone in IS ends up doing same kind of work
the benefits - health is out of this world, the gym, the 401k
Cons
it's really a "you and your luck" situation regarding advancement - if you get stuck behind a poor manager, you are really in trouble. there tends to be less competence in the technology side of the house than the biology side