Pros
- Diverse work environment and ability to attend on-campus events (lectures, classes etc) - Good benefits to go with a modest salary - Free tuition after continuous employment of at least 12 months
Cons
- Modest salaries (though compensated by free tuition after a year of working full-time) - Work was not very challenging for someone with advanced skills - Little or no career advancement opportunities (despite being a large organization with numerous open job postings, there's very little effort to have employees switch departments in case of re-orgs or staff layoffs). - The tuition assistance benefit is a great employee benefit on paper. However, there is a lot of fine print, including a one-year waiting period. Worst experience of my tenure was being laid-off right after being accepted into a top-tier graduate program at the university. It meant that I had to pay the tuition out of pocket. - Management handled the layoffs process poorly.