3.0
Oct 26, 2014
Current employee, more than 10 years
East Lansing, MI
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Flexible time, variety of work, challenge of learning new technologies, fair amount of deadwood to compete against for very limited merit raises, most people have nice work environments. Job security is still a little better than corporate, especially for older IT workers.
Cons
The pay is much lower than corporate world (for IT, that is, system administrators and programmers), and while 20 years ago there was low stress in the job to offset that, these days staffing is generally stretched thin, resulting in nearly as much stress as I had in corporate world for most of my career.