Pros
They usually hire within the company when new positions open up, before looking outside of the company, which means a lot of opportunities to move around and gain new experiences in different departments. Healthy snacks every Wednesday and free food twice a month. Fun activities, like potlucks during holidays and a pumpkin carving contest on Halloween.
Cons
You never know what time you're going to get out. You could end up working 8 hours or 15 hours (the longest I have worked in one day). The lab department seems to receive the least amount of appreciation from upper management. High turnover rate and no one really seems to be doing anything to try and fix that--to try and keep lab techs from burning out so quickly. It feels like we are always understaffed in the lab but that could be because a lot of people are allowed to schedule off on the same day, when there used to be an unspoken rule in place that no more than three people could have off on the same day.