Pros
A great place to learn and improve your professional skills if you are a self driven individual and don't need support to learn and acquire knowledge from the diversity of experiences you can encounter here. Relatively flexible hours if you work outside the analytical laboratory.
Cons
Completely lack of manager support when it comes to personal development i.e. courses, further education etc. Average to low pay specially at the technician level, high turn around of people in the analytical department which the managers (specially in Geneva) don't realize affect the business on the other departments (metallurgical operation). There are lots of toxic senior employees that makes life and work impossible to those that want to develop on the work place. Managers (upper managers and to a degree group managers) show a complete lack of interest for the people that work there, you are just a number to them and when the market softens you are on a list to get fired almost immediately... how far down the list you are? ...nobody actually knows until you get the call.