Pros
- emphasize global responsibility and community involvement; - many great people who are smart with great team spirit -tech is strategic enabler so stay current with technology and best practices - encourage innovation - mostly open culture - work life balance has improved a lot in the past few years and is well maintained for most teams - Flexible work time/location and flexible WFH option (may depend on teams/project and manager but in general is a norm in GapTech) - there has been growing pain for the former digital division's IT and there has been a lot of re-org since the merge of former GID IT and the Corporate IT thus lost a lot of good talents. But the latest GapTech re-org cut out a lot of redundancy and old bureaucracy, it may not be all right but is well received by a lot of folks and towards the right direction. In a way, the last 10 years from GID to GapTech is like a startup tech company going through growing pain and the pain of merging with a legacy Corp. Frustrating at times but there's still energy like a tech company. - it's a financially sound company with money to invest in technology
Cons
Not so easy for advancement though there are opportunities for horizontal movement; Retail apparel business is a not-so-stella industry to be in now so don't expect a big bonus There has been struggles for the business to deliver consistently good products Big corporations always have good and bad middle mgmt so having a good manager is important. Too many different communication tools as different teams may try different things but it makes communications a bigger challenge for globally spread-out teams and many different functions/departments/projects/teams As a company trying to transform in a transforming industry, there's a lot of uncertainty and a lot of changes. Not for someone looking for stability.