Pros
I worked for Delta 6 years and I really enjoyed the benefits and certain events. Meaning pretty good health insurance, 401k match AND most importantly, flight benefits which come with some drawbacks (domestic flights are trouble, better to buy a ticket, however for international it can be very valuable). I got some rules of thumb, join Delta corporate if you want to travel or if your plan is to get Delta on your resume and then get out in couple years after you enjoy traveling the world. Also if you’re not the youngest anymore meaning you really don’t have the drive and passion anymore about your profession, you don’t want to improve things, you don’t want to learn anything new and just want to sit back and enjoy the boring life until retirement then Delta is for you.
Cons
I have lot of downsides that I noticed during my years in Delta: 1) If you want to learn new technologies and be innovative, this is not a company for you (very old tech with early 2000ish habits) - they just pretend to be the best 2) people get promoted into management positions without an actual skill for the job, just because they were in the company for long time and “started from the bottom” 3) frankly, Delta is a cult - act happy, be positive, talk only great things about Delta because everyone else does and if you’re not then you will nit fit. Feels like sorority or fraternity 4) low salaries compared to other tech companies. Delta thinks that the benefits will equal up to higher salaries (it’s like why we need to pay you more when you can fly for free) WRONG! If you ask for a raise you will barely get 4% raise in few years 5) NOT REMOTE for a job that can simply be remote, if Delta wants to have and keep young talent they need to hop on the current market’s train 6) seems like people get hired based on years of experience (or how enthusiastic are about Delta’s culture) more than an actual skill - this will show on projects and you will notice 7) looking for agile methodologies or efficient project structure? good luck to you. not present 8) the entire company feels very disorganized 9) going to piggyback on 1) again, all Delta’s IT isn’t great. You can notice as an employee, requesting for stuff, or even navigating through employee web and so on but, as a Software Engineer, I really saw techie things that I don’t ever want to see again
