Pros
Salary can be tempting - until you calculate your hourly rate... Staff are decent people for the most part Free tea and coffee Car park is nice Security guy is friendly
Cons
One of the engineering team leaders has about as much technical knowledge as a turnip, and resorts to barking irrelevant factoids then wobbling his head a lot when an issue arises. Example: Engineer: Server name RS00JTG has stopped responding! Manager: Ohhh no! Argh! Grrrr! *head wobble* First thing; why haven't you done your task list yet?? You're meant to waste time first by writing me a daily list of activities you are planning to do today first! I know as well as you do, that you won't actually get around to doing them since they didn't account for this issue today - but this is still of the up most priority! Preposterous, am I the only one with sense around here?! Anyway I'm too busy writing an email about how some engineer has body odor problems (I'm being serious, this was an actual email). Speak to one of the more competent senior engineers in my team instead. They might know their head from their arse. Don't worry though! I'll come and stand behind them in a few minutes and shriek random unrelated statements in an ape like manner to further consolidate the fact that I was dropped on my head as a child. This is everyday working at CG engineering services. If you appreciate your sanity...don't join. I'm getting out ASAP.