Pros
Many intelligent and friendly co-workers Advanced Technology with great business potential Pay is good for permanent employees Very nice, vast and nearly empty facilities (except for San Jose) make for a quiet work place
Cons
The disposal of very knowledgable and dedicated employees in a hapharzard manner has been unprofessional at best. The "Expanding our Globalization" mantra is simply a matter of managment believing in the cheap labor of foreign markets will produce the same quality and innovations of the past. Morale is mostly negative. People share thier disgust openly, and it gets old. Ass kissing is often more valued than quality of work. Management will lie to your face and deny culpability. Integrity has been lost. Too many meetings and too few people paying attention in them as a result. Senior managment only cares about thier bonu$ potential. Employee ownership concepts of the past (stock, options, related incentives) is very much a thing of the past. Almost all of the limited North America hiring is contract based and on the cheap