Pros
- Nice people to work with day to day. - In my experience, my managers took care of me. If you have a good manager who will fight for you will have a good time. - No layoffs in hard times. - Opportunity to move up (to a certain degree) if you know the right people. - Easy work and hours for some roles. - Compensation is great if you know your worth and fight for it.
Cons
- Upper leadership (executive and C-suite) is rigid and old fashioned. - Dress code is completely outdated. Even after they "loosened it up" post pandemic. It is still overly formal for the average worker. All they did was drop the tie. And even now they still require a tie sometimes. - Executive and above don't care about their people. They used to do an annual employee satisfaction survey. One of the biggest asks was for remote work. They just stopped doing the survey because they felt like employees were just saying the same thing over and over. Nothing changed. It actually got worse. - Does not embrace the new normal for work. - Wants everyone in an office even if they don't work with anyone in that office. They have people in an office to sit on zoom calls with people in other places. - Some people in many roles work entirely too much. They run too lean and it causes the really good people to have to carry the load and work crazy hours. - Even after employees proved themselves during the pandemic that they could be productive and bring the company to a high point at the same time. They still want to drag everyone back to an office for "culture" reasons.