Pros
If you are lucky enough to land one of the good managers, you will like it here. Once upon a time, you had work-life balance. It is easy to move up if you know the manager personally or play politics right.
Cons
The inability to hire competent leaders plagues this organization. With each leadership change, the quality deteriorates further. I have personally endured the indignity of being yelled at, micromanaged, belittled, and explicitly told that I fell short of the new manager's expectations. What's worse, I have witnessed leaders colluding against disliked employees, deliberately fostering a hostile environment to drive them away. The exodus of talented individuals from this place is a regular occurrence, as they have lost faith in HR and upper management to address the incompetence of directors and middle managers. It is disheartening to witness BECU's decline, fueled by the influx of subpar hires in crucial positions. To compound the injustice, I have even witnessed one of these inept directors ascend to the role of VP, despite HR's knowledge of their tyrannical past. The abysmal state of HR here is truly unprecedented and deeply saddening. My advice to prospective employees is to consider this place only as a last resort, as the gamble of ending up with a bad manager remains ever-present.