Pros
- Deep corporate resources for equipment, supplies, job tools - Good education benefits - Good bonuses (if the company is doing well) - Tries to improve - Has some agile, intelligent, hard-working employees
Cons
- Moves ponderously slowly (if at all) on intelligent suggestions from the experts the company employs - Misses ENORMOUS money-making opportunities because of management turf wars - Moves lightning-fast on pet projects promoted by upper management - Wastes money investing in poorly managed and under-analyzed initiatives - Terrible at follow-through on long-term projects - Terrible at internal communications (can be very "siloed") - You need to be excellent at tooting your own horn to advance - Annual employee reviews are more a matter of defending yourself rather than collaborating with management and documenting your successes and learning experiences - Awards and advancement can be based on favoritism and the "halo" effect - Management quality is spotty - Has shockingly few safeguards/redundancies in place to ensure quality/thoroughness of work