Pros
It's a place where a person can count on the stability that a global company can provide for the long term with decent benefits and a steady paycheck that small businesses are challenged to offer.
Cons
Do not come to Agilent without a chemistry background and lab experience. The non-technical roles are sweatshops that you will never crawl out of. Non-revenue generating roles are overworked, understaffed and underpaid. Agilent doesn't seem to realize that their sales team is dependent on these support roles to close new business and to strengthen their brand with customers. However, If you come as a PhD or with an MBA, you will do fine, but be warned that "baseless discrediting" is rampant at these levels. Again, it depends on who you report to and the circles you are in. Do your homework on the hiring manager before you accept an offer. Even then, your management can change and everything that you have worked on thrown out the window in an instant. You may have been on the short list for one manager but then the next one has their own short list of promotable candidates. A management change can set a person back several years and often employees have to leave roles that they enjoy to simply keep from stagnating or to get away from a toxic manager.