Pros
ICE used to a very good to work for. But now, if you are in technology, there are really very few pros. Nothing worth mentioning.
Cons
Where should start. Technology is so backdated, for tech enthusiastic, there is is no point of joining ICE. There are few bright spots in NYSE side of the business and in ICE Data Service, but otherwise the landscape is quite gloomy. I am talking abt from purely technical point of view. On the business side, it is good. The business is led by Jeff Specter, lots of respect for him, he is a true visionary. On the technical front , the outlook is very gloomy. In most cases, the technical leaders are narrow minded, short sighted and depends heavily on politics to survive. If you are not in the leaders inner cycle and not a yes man for the leader, your career is doomed. Mainly the leaders on ICE side without proper vision and experience, are taking helms of NYSE and letting some more capable leaders on the NYSE side to leave ( read forced to leave), the situation is very scary and jittery there. If these shortcomings are addressed properly and some new, fresh minds are brought in leadership positions, the technical future does not look good for this company. With proper steps taken, they do have lots of potential. They need to do some serious housecleaning, get rid of the old guards. They used to pay well, but after they revoked equity sharing and in the current market, where remote working is becoming the norm, they are not even in the horizon to compete with the west coasts giants and other innovative companies that are in Atlanta market now. So my advise to anyone trying to join ICE, be careful, get more information on the team u r joining, the technology used, who is the leader of the team and what is his reputation, otherwise you may end up wasting your talent. I tried to be very unbiased here keeping all emotions aside. Hope this helps.