Pros
Smart, fair, honest and reasonable colleagues. Strong community sense among employees around the same level.
Cons
New CEO is from the for profit education sector and just interested in padding his resume for the next career step. Has no real ideas or plans for increasing revenue because of declining product lines so instead just fires people en masse without thinking through the consequences or providing an explanation. Has filled upper management ranks with external cronies who know nothing about the industry or internal ones who have failed repeatedly to be successful. Org leaders claim to be interested in diversity but diversity initiatives are run by old white people and actual people of color are dissatisfied and ignored. Research used to be a nice place to work but is now run by out of touch, overpaid people with no vision, ideas or expertise and just interested in protecting their huge salaries or continuing their climb up the career ladder by taking credit for work they didn't do. Total disorganization in the division and will probably just get worse. Talented people who do most of the real work are laid off without explanation or communication while upper management's favorites are retained despite obvious lack of competence. Remaining employees are looking for the exit. If you're thinking about coming to work here don't do it, you will regret it.