Pros
Great work/life balance. Great healthcare, especially if you have a family; okay if you're single. Lots of autonomy and freedom/flexibility. Lots of paid vacation/sick time. Good place to learn and build skills.
Cons
Prepared to be UNDER paid compared to the industry. Purdue does not and will not attempt to compete with the industry as a whole. If you're looking for $ this isn't the place for you. It will only disappoint you. There is clear intentionality to 'keep you down' here. Purdue will purposefully do things to make you less marketable, so it's harder for you to move on, such as pay for industry certifications. Working here is like being in an abusive relationship. The longer you stay the more entrenched you get and the harder it is to leave it behind. I can't help but feel that is by design. Constantly understaffed. Constant backfilling that never comes through, because they cannot get their hands on qualified talent (because they refuse to pay for qualified talent). Their solution to this is hiring students fresh out of college and egregiously underpaying them until they move on; then rinse, repeat. The most repeated tag line in this department is "it is what it is". Because you have no control over anything and are forced to live with it. All you can do is cope. That's what most of the people working here are doing- coping. Coping with an abusive workplace that never seems to get better.