You'll meet a few great people but your developer skills will rapidly become outdated
Pros
You will meet a few high quality people
Cons
- Old framework (at least in my division) is used ... at the time I left, our version of Angular was 4 major versions behind (Angular 17 was live but tech team using 13 with no plans I was aware of to upgrade) - Management will not invest in any tech tools you ask for, so again, you may start to fall behind with your development skills - You will likely remain a contractor for FAR LONGER than other companies - our tech lead (an excellent developer) still had not been converted to FTE after 4+ years, and this was not uncommon with the people I spoke with (I was at 3+ yrs) - Even as a developer, you will have way too many meetings, many of which you will walk away from with the feeling that it was mostly/completely a waste of time - There were so many silo-ed layers of tech/codebase ownership that it sometimes was very challenging to complete tasks which required another team's help
