Pros
-Lots of room for advancement for engineers -challenging work -Pay is pretty decent for engineering, average for nuclear industry however
Cons
-incredibly demanding...I've more than once been called in the middle of the night to work on something -Not enough trust in employees....recent badging in/"we're watching how long you're in the office" policies make you feel like you work for a call center or something, even though we are all professional employees who often work many many hours of overtime at home -Health insurance benefits are scary-bad. If you are in good health, subtract at least 1000 dollars from your salary a year for random unpaid medical bills....usually blood tests. But if you have a family, you can count on even more unanticipated out of pocket costs. It also doesn't cover a lot of things you would think would be no brainers. Asthma medication, for example....costs 100 (rescue inhaler only) -200 (rescue inhaler plus corticosteroid) dollars a month for my wife. The benefits get worse every year, and the employee contributions go up. Really not competitive when you look at companies like GE or AREVA's benefits, whose benefits are outstanding.