Pros
Some great coworkers, it makes a bad job more tolerable.
Cons
In a word, the VP of IT and the executive VP above him. There has been a continuous flood of our most experienced, reliable, and knowledgeable people going out the door for the last three years and we are all sick of it! There is no attempt whatsoever to retain our quality people. The reason 99% of the IT staff leave is that they pay about 55% of the market rate. It creates a continuous brain drain and you are expected to know what they did overnight or are treated like you are a total reject. Working here is like the storming the beach scene in Saving Private Ryan if they were just running for a paycheck but still getting shot. The current VP of IT is a former Enron employee and keeps parroting that "a stable company sure is great to work for" because of that experience (which probably scarred him for life). I'm sure a Gulag in the former USSR was a very stable place, it didn't make people want to stay. The only people that stay more than ten years here are the poor sad sacks that are too scared to look for another job, or those whose technical/thinking acumen is so deficient it would not be accepted at other companies. So cowards and the brain dead are all you have left to work with eventually. I have had it with the ones who have left over the last year and now I'm looking too.