Pros
Individual contributors are amazing, smart, kind, funny, hard-working people, and you'll definitely make some good friends.
Cons
Good lord, where to start? The current CEO appears to be only concerned with her personal brand and shows absolutely zero empathy for employees. Case in point: after major layoffs, she waltzed around cheerfully saying "Happy New Year!" (meaning new fiscal year) as though the company hadn't just dramatically changed the lives of dozens of people. Not to be outdone, the former CEO, who is "retired," co-opted the space of an entire department to create an unnecessarily large office for himself. Did I mention he's retired? The guy just. can't. let. go. But the company desperately needs him to. Upper management consistently makes poor, backward, slow decisions and the processes and products are SO outdated. SMEs are regularly ignored, and managers go around throwing bad money after good based on "gut feeling" rather than on data of any kind. Also, if you've ever been to a DDI training, you know that you receive an entire tree's worth of paper in a giant, three-ring binder. It's 2017, folks...there should be an app for that! If you want to get anything done, be prepared to go through miles of red tape: That vendor has to fill out six forms before we can pay them! / You can only use your corporate credit card for these oddly specific expenses! / The VP of your department has to sign off on ALL contracts, no matter how minuscule! Forget about career advancement. No one, including your manager, will know what you need to do to get promoted, and it's not a priority because people have been complaining about this for years. And watch out for "stretch assignments." This is just their way of getting additional work and giving you zero additional compensation.