Pros
Choose your own hours, with major caveats. Some travel.
Cons
Upper management has slowly been chipping away at everything that was good about this job. RTI was recently voted one of the best places to work, but this is not going to be your experience at the bottom of the ladder. We used to take yearly training trips to a nice destination, expenses paid, since covid they have replaced that with short zoom trainings with no hint of bringing travel back. They also suddenly switched from a weekly pay period to bimonthly without any input from employees. The rules constantly change and affect the way we can do the job itself. Things like "choosing your won schedule" ring hollow when you re required to work on certain days and times. The work itself is exponentially more challenging as the political landscape changes and more and more people claim to hate the government. When employees are threatened with violence, had guns pulled on them like I have, management does nothing.