Pros
Excellent Internship Programs. Decent Starting Compensation and Benefits but do not expect significant increases or recognition purely based on your experience and work ethics. New well equipped offices. Some recent investments in latest technologies but due to lack of IT leadership many solutions not aligned with long term strategies and overall benefits in some cases are marginal.
Cons
Existing IT culture is not aligned with Guggenheim General Principles. No clear sense of direction from CIO/CTO, CTO and CIO do not collaborate with internal IT teams directly, they rely on small group of non-technical PMs to communicate IT vision and architecture leading to major transparency issues and poorly planned and communicated projects. Frequent and ineffective restructures based on legacy IT practices demotivates staff. Daily outages taking attention away from regular work and projects. Very high stress level for IT staff and middle management trying to adjust to changing priorities and last minute projects. Favoritism is rampant. Top technical talent terminated, marginalized, demoted or quit while inexperienced managers regularly promoted to top positions.