Pros
Ample opportunity to travel the world and learn new skills. Large company so the possibility of being acquired is low.
Cons
Not really a tech company. Their products are all acquisitions. The company then turns around, trains someone making much less money and lays off the engineers and support staff responsible for creating the product. The result is techs and support staff who aren't too knowledgeable in the product they support. Not only is this frustrating to the support engineers but think of how the clients must feel! The IT staff for the most part is 90% outsourced. Unqualified and overpaid it's easy to say if you have the slightest problem with your computer you might as well just reinstall your operating system before it actually gets fixed. The remaining 10% are incompetent. No one has an original idea or wants to make the company or processes better. People are content just to come into work and collect a paycheck. The company is French based, so get used to being wrong all the time. As stated earlier there are no original ideas just acquired companies that knew what they were doing. You get the ability to learn new skills, but it's often at the cost of the company performance and the hatred from your peers. You have 10 years of experience in software development? Let's put you in a manager role of HR. You are a senior Finance member? We have the perfect position for you in R&D. If you happen to get promoted from a senior member to a management role you get the additional privilege of learning out how much more your pervious peers make more then you. Yes, make. HR won't do a thing, as far as they are concerned this is what you agreed on so who cares if the people under you make more. You should feel privileged to be promoted.