Pros
Absolutely the best place to work if you are someone who wants to be able to "hide" within an organization that doesn't value talent or achievement. This was a really great place to work for people who (1) have been with the same company for 30 years, (2) aren't particularly competent, (3) don't want to work hard [or maybe don't know HOW to work hard, since they've been insulated from it for so long], and (4) have no idea what it's like to work in a competitive environment. The Systems and Technology division, to be fair, also had many great engineers who knew how to keep improving the mainframe platform, which was a billion-dollar business operating at 80% gross margins and generating all the cash that kept Unisys alive. These machines never break down, never stop, are completely secure (No Clearpath mainframe has ever been hacked in FIFTY years).
Cons
The organization was full of 59-year-old white males who haven't worked anywhere else but Unisys/Sperry/Burroughs since 1975 and who have no idea how to compete in a market, thanks to the near-monopoly mainframe business that throws off a billion dollars per year in cash flow and hides the fact that the Systems & Technology organization is overstaffed by about 5000 people who really didn't appear to be producing anything. The senior management of Systems and Technology (at the time) were absolutely clueless about how to run anything other than milking the 50-year-old mainframe cash cow. Clueless. The only senior exec who knew ANYthing about business, management, or the technology industry was the president of the division, George Gazerwitz, but he was so autocratic and universally feared by his people that when he retired, there literally wasn't a single person on his staff that knew even rudimentary business concepts. They simply never were exposed to competing or running anything in their careers.
