Pros
Good work like balance (they don't care where you work from, when or how much) Good Benefits (which help to offset low pay) Mostly pleasant work environment and people Nearly carte blanche travel policy
Cons
Company relies too much on it's technology purchases and stock price and doesn't recognize that it's greatest asset is it's people. Many executives here are "accidental managers" and were often promoted 10-20 years ago from technical positions. I can't see where many execs here ever had any training (initially or ongoing) about how to manage people or projects, so they just seem to ignore a lot of people management issues and hope they go away. Eventually the nail that sticks up will get hammered down, because many execs here seem to be more concerned with self-preservation than moving the company ahead. HR is extremely weak, and I believe that's by design, not by HR choice. Change is very slow. Flying ideas up the flagpole often get completely ignored. For a company this size middle management has very little power or decision making authority. Most decisions seem to be made very secretively at the executive level only and then passed down from the top without much explanation or rationale for the decision.