Pros
None that I could see
Cons
Spent one week at their head office in Blackburn before quitting. Firstly there is totally inadequate parking, if you find a space you will likely be blocked in, and people aren't quick to help. The offices themselves are symptomatic of the general state of the business, i.e. they are an absolute mess. Not only are they dirty, threadbare, and haven't seen a lick of paint in probably 40 years, they are massively untidy. The amount of junk just left lying around is not only against fire regulations but shows how much people who work there care about the business, it seems people have generally given up. This mindset showed in their computer systems, an utter and total mess. Production servers full of 'OLD_STUFF' directories etc. They had no source control, no development or test systems, everything just hacked on live. Bad practices in the 1970s, never mind 2020s. I'd been brought in to drag them forwards, and may have done, but the state of the offices I was expected to work in for 8 hours a day was far below where I choose to spend my time. (Could also mention the induction training which was given by someone using it as a platform to put forward their COVID conspiracy theories!)