Pros
Will never be required to overwork yourself, so if you can manage your time well and maintain boundaries you will have good work life balance. Building a financial accounting engine is far more interesting than supporting a random microservice in a huge ecosystem while also having more stability than a startup. The company is growing and will probably keep growing, which has pros and cons. The primary competition is big investment firms building better in house analytics tools (they aren't exactly known for good software prowess). Boise is a nice city with good parks, a little car-centric, but the "greenbelt" is a really nice green bike path along the river through many nice parks. It's an incredibly safe city with very low crime.
Cons
Rapid turnover and inability to retain talent or hire even mediocre developers. The brain drain is real and every team is understaffed. Will always be behind on your quarterly objectives as project managers schedule too much and don't budget in time for tech-debt or testing. There is way too much "reshuffling of deck chairs on the titanic" to try and get absolutely minor business needs out faster, rather than having a stable product that is built and deployed correctly. Executives are really tone-deaf and often snap at employee concerns that don't line up with their objectives. It's great for the CEO and his 50 million bonus (probably more money than they pay the entirety of development) if the company is growing but the employees aren't seeing any of that. They act like they are employee-centric but are just going through the motions and giving out t-shirts mostly. They are not doing anything unique or deciding anything for themselves, everything is "this is what other companies are doing so it's what we are doing" Outsourcing to india is causing huge communication concerns, some services we used literally had no contact or ways to contribute. I could barely communicate with half my team. The infrastructure teams have so much outstanding work that it's impossible to get help even setting up services or understanding how they want them connected. When you do get someone, the response will likely be "I don't know, figure it out" They try to have a "startup" attitude toward hiring and retaining developers. I am sorry but CW is a corporation now, they need to get with the program people are not going to be working out of passion anymore. You will have to fight and claw for compensation, make sure you are getting offers from other companies somewhat frequently. I was not impressed with the recruiters at CW or the internal growth opportunities. Boise is getting a lot more expensive to live in. Make sure your numbers are up to date before relocating.
