Run away if you want a career; stay if you just need the money
Pros
- Pays Ok - Ability to work from home; though this varies from team to team - Good benefits especially PTO for corporate employees - Very stable business model with no exciting changes
Cons
- Minimal Guidance & Training: Don't expect any guidance or technical resource supporting your role; management just wants you to start producing numbers for them instead of giving you development opportunities. Minimal training is given and the rest is on you to figure everything out. - Bureaucracy & Favoritism: Bureaucracy is all over the place here. There are probably more VPs in some departments than analysts which is laughable. If you want to survive here, kiss up the CORRECT higher-up will help you a long way. You will get fast tracked in your career by becoming their favorites; however if you are not one of those favorites, you are out of luck & will stay in your position probably forever. - No accountability: With the bureaucracy they had over here it's more important to make sure your boss & your boss's boss look good than doing actual work so people would make up numbers and nobody would want to do any implementation on anything. Plus nobody checks on whether your number is correct or not, so fake it until you make it (& nobody will ever make it)! - Siloed working environment: A lot of teams work in huge silos even sub-teams within the same org don't talk to each other. Nobody knows what's going on with the other group. This basically makes collaboration impossible.
