Pros
A lot of the people are great on a personal level and there is very little conflict within a lot of the teams. The overall compensation package for recent hires meets or exceeds local job market standards.
Cons
Specifically for IT groups, Adtalem suffers from a few issues: 1) As of Oct 2017, they are actively attempting to outsource most IT jobs. There is a potential for additional unannounced layoffs in the coming months. If you are engaged with them for a headcount or contract position right now, reconsider. They are outsourcing architecture, implementations, and operations across multiple IT disciplines. 2) Many people across IT teams have only worked at Adtalem for most of their careers and only know "the Adtalem way" of doing things. This means that applications, servers, networks, etc are not configured to the latest best practices and standards which result in multiple outages and war room situations. If you value work/life balance, Adtalem might not be for you. If you press hard enough, you have the ability to get them onto industry standards but that long process may get constantly interrupted by upper management not understanding the importance. 3) The goals of IT meeting the needs of the business are not clear. The CIO and senior directors don't have the experience working in proper IT shops and second guess decisions that they make. This results in situations where they give you two high importance tasks and then a day later tell you to stop because now they have another task that's even more important. This results in non-stop anxiety in staff and if you ask/look around, it shows. If you have a great manager, they will do their best to filter this bad behavior, but it leaks enough that the impact is still there. People are not proud to say they work at Adtalem. 4) Adtalem may make you engage one or more vendors because they are curious about certain technology. They may sound serious enough to buy, but in reality there is no budget and they are wasting everyone's time. We've burned bridges with countless vendors to the point they wont talk to us later.