Pros
- Smart, skilled, and experienced people (mostly); - Strong corporate values (honesty, fairness, competition) are more than just lip service; - Honest and relatively transparent dealings with customers; - Corporate puts real resources and money behind community service; - Employee happiness efforts are more than just lip service. Talk is backed by money and time; - Lots of opportunity if you are not an idiot; - Very strong financials; - Serious attention paid to costs of each project; - Corp. not afraid to spend serious money for perceived benefits' - Well-managed growth; - Company genuinely strategizes for next generation.; - Generous pay and benefits, including pension. - Interesting problems to solve in a vertical backed by lots and lots of spending. - Really nice facilities; - Full gym on site. First-class equipment, personal trainers - all FREE; - Decent food options in the subsidized cafe
Cons
Like all large companies, ATC feels growing pains - too few processes and SOP becomes too much process and SOP. Eventually it will even out.; - Very often plans don't survive contact; Lots of hero efforts by individual contributors are often required for projects to succeed. And they often do. - Too much red tape sometimes to get things done. - Lots of powerpoint and political buy-in required for significant efforts. (not any different than any other place really) - It's a first-name place. An hourly worker can call the CEO by first name and it's normal. - Can be hard to get recognized, stand out from the crowd. Depends on what department you work in and who your bosses are