Pros
Interesting end markets. Many hardworking people, small number of talented executives. When the company eventually collapses under it's own weight there will be some good product lines available.
Cons
The C-Suite has lost the plot. The company has turned the process of buying brands and ruining them into a science. They even have a term for it "Eatonize" Any decision or direction can be chalked up to "vision" and "leadership". Most of them actually driven by accounting and HR and agreed in concensus. Comical. No longer invests in training. Bureaucratic. Ability has very little to do with promotional opportunities. This one was hard to watch play out time after time. Compensation is below average. Benifits are below average and get worse every year. Will make any cut or reduction that can be rationalized by peer group behavior. Product quality and customer satisfaction is low on the list of priorities. Leads new engineers to believe they are working for and being trained by world class manufacturers, still uses laminated cards as an inventory system. Treats hourly workers very poorly. Never backfill positions, when a coworker finds a better job, yours gets worse. It's all about people and leadership until a decision doesn't align with a fictional top down forecast... then it's results at all costs. Annual budget process is entirely top down, when the company misses they wonder why! Argue about reality then miss forecast then restructure... and repeat.
