Pros
Viable financial position and getting better. The new president has enriched the company's opportunities and global prospects, but he has a lot of work ahead of him. New outside team members that the new CEO brought into the engineering team are making a good difference, but not fast enough.
Cons
Condescending attitude towards women in the engineering group, seen more as administrators and are basically invisible even as engineers and program managers. Only seen as someone who needs to be mentored. Very little opportunity to contribute at a high level due to all the near-term retirees who have a strangle-hold on the engineering departments, new ideas are threatening and intimidating, speak your mind and you're gone. An entire group of top-notch engineers, project managers and sales executives left the company about 2 months ago, due to lack of vision in the engineering department. Women are not regarded as a part of the team. Vicious in-fighting, lack of respect between peers, verbal abuse of global counterparts, parochial attitudes and old-style fiefdoms, total lack of any real global collaboration. They need to clean house and retire the soon-to-be retirees who are just sitting their making work for themselves, killing time and making no visible contribution (office of program management is a good example) to the bottom line, nor to any engineering intellectual property.