Pros
Travel all over and direct teammates are some great people. Middle management is also a group of solid individuals who understand what it takes but it stops there.
Cons
Benefits suck, your paycheck is your only source of income. No bonus programs, no profit sharing, no stock options, no pensions etc. Most employees are salary and working a lot more than 40 hours without compensation and rely on a gentlemen’s agreement for comp time after traveling. If your role requires travel you are trading your entire life for a career that at most will pay you in the ballpark of 150k a year if your hourly and willing. If you are not aware you can make that money and be at home every night with the same skill set - it’s not that difficult to find (and you can achieve this in the southern market where cost of living is dramatically lower). A family medical plan will cost over 500 a month I previously worked at Amazon and paid $27 a week for better coverage. There is a reason most of the controls engineers are in their 20’s, they don’t have families or the experience to warrant better pay. HR is a joke tell Wendy and Addison I said hi!