Pros
Good colleagues to work with and I did learn in the two years I was an employee. However the job is not as described, as a ‘Senior Engineer’ you can expect your day to day duties to be attending data centres moving a switch 2U within a rack etc. ‘IS’ is the more interesting side of the organisation responsible for automation, however the network side are completely segregated from the same. At the end of the day it’s a large layer 2 network, so nothing exciting in that regard.
Cons
Old boys club and an if your face fits culture. There is no real motivation to get anything done, given it’s a membership based organisation, the money comes rolling in. Overly complex ’Agile framework’ designed to manage large software projects, which obviously isn’t applicable here. Completely unfair and biased HR department, which had I wanted to I could have taken legal action against them, but for all the above reasons, they simply were not worth it.