Pros
- It is a good job, you don't have to love the work, that is what it is work. - The benefits are decent, not great , but affordable. - Unlimited vacation leave - Most positions are work from home, huge savings for both you and the company. I have been with what is now Finastra for a good bit. I have been through some mergers and acquisitions and seen company leadership reorganization each time. I have been managed by good leaders and poor leaders and hope I have been a good leader. It is accurate to say you can't please all the people all the time, you have to pick a middle of the road that takes care of most of the people. There have been layoffs, sure, like every other company as the economy or market demand less or more, that is just good personnel management. Each year I have never failed to get a raise and a bonus, maybe not what i was hoping for but I got something and that is better than nothing. There is no company out there that is increasing salary to match the current inflation rate, we are in a recession and perhaps headed toward a depression. The unlimited vacation if a double edged sword, it costs the company nothing, as each manager approves it based on whether or not your work is done. On the flip side, the company wins by saving paying out any unused leave at termination time.
Cons
It is a large, global corporation with numerous product, there should be plenty or room for promotion from within, but the hiring managers seem to staff with new faces from their last company. If they likes the last place so much, why did they move? It is no secret that the company has fired or laid off a couple of thousand people only to move the same jobs to the Philippines, India, Romania and similar places with a lower per capita income, hiring lesser skilled people at a greatly reduced rate or not backfilling the holes at all and increasing the workload of the other employees.