Pros
Flexible work hours, jewish holidays, good vacation and enough sick days. Room to expand if management considers it and if you are in the right department. You will also get chance to learn/break/fix since there is no immediate pressure from mgmt like you would see in corporate/for-profit/finance company. The real resources (people) are the best at this company.
Cons
This is mostly for ITS since I don't know how other departments work but they may go through many issues/challenges ITS also goes through. Major CONS: - Low Salary + Salary Freeze + cuts via lowering retirement contribution) - Not enough people - Politics (LOTS OF IT) - No financial management (not sure what the finance department does all day) Overall, the management is very bad (probably the upper mgmt). If you work at YU, you will affirm that management doesn't know anything about technology and they also do not know who the valuable/important employees are because they don't believe in meetings or spending time with their team. There is a PMO office that doesn't do anything. In my 5 years, I have never seen or heard from a PM about any projects we did and we did some huge projects (Datacenter/physical/hardware/virtual moves of production systems). The MGMT spends more time with consultants than the regular employees who actually know what is really happening. Wrong people (idiots) get promoted and the real people who do the work usually get left behind.