Pros
- Long-standing, stable firm doing important work in a vital industry - True innovation happens here, depending on where in the organization you work and how well funded it is - Culture from middle-management down supports new ideas and values manager/employee relationships - Decent opportunities if you're a very high performer, have a thick skin and a lot of patience - Good bonuses, but again, only if you're a high performer
Cons
- Company can't get out of its own way with an insane level of red tape, antiquated policies and overly-complicated employee communications - Innovation is squashed more often than not due to hilariously low budgets and staff resources, even in critical areas of the business - While middle-manager/employee relationships are often healthy, executives (EVPs) severely undermine them with rash decisions and surprise policy changes that leave everyone wondering if they're deliberately trying to wreck the company - Alarming trend down in the promotion policy that requires even junior employees to apply for their own role — if they don't get it, they're gone - Forced return-to-office applies largely to the US and nowhere else in the world, leaving a huge part of the workforce feeling unfairly targeted - Lower and lower base pay that is now well below market average, with no cost-of-living increases (many, many years of 0% change) - The company does not invest enough in people or technology to do the essentials, so many people are constantly overworked (60, 70, 80 or more hours per week)