Culture of fear and mediocrity in IT bedeviled by nonexistent leadership, embedded trauma from unlearned lessons
Pros
Decent benefits, affordable health insurance Very talented coworkers Paid time off University reimbursement Latest technology Some flexibility in managing your time
Cons
Fire-fighting approaches by management, short term vs. sustainable long-term thinking Inappropriate workload, Inappropriate distribution of work among team members "Not enough time" to mentor emerging talent, management too busy working on impression management Management takes the path of least resistance and dumps on competence aka "performance punishment" of an extra workload Touch-it-you-own-it mentality Gaslighting management that is not empowered to enforce accountability anywhere in the organization, "just get it done" even if it's an unsustainable approach or wrong decision Quit-and-stay mentality among remaining workforce Remaining workforce is disgruntled and not open to new approaches for example code source control The organization does not trust IT to deliver due to past trauma. You will be walking into a dumpster fire if you take a job in IT here, however there are definitely some teams where management protects their staff. Lord help you if you get into a dept. with insecure ego-performative "leadership"