Pros
Leonardo has many very high profile contracts, and the ability to win more. If you want access to the famous projects Leonardo is known for, then this is the place to be. As a large company, Leonardo ensures that its staff have access to a strong suite of benefits and competitive compensation. On some specific projects, a concerted effort has been made to create an enclave within Leonardo where the normal drawbacks of working here apply significantly less. Within these projects, Leonardo behaves like a modern engineering company. Generally, things are trending positive. This is because significant recruitment and retention issues are starting to directly force the company to change. There are quite a few career opportunities available for the same reason.
Cons
If you've grown up with the internet, you may pay a heavy psychological price to work here, depending on the project you end up on. Leonardo features a high density of autocrats with heavily outdated expertise in senior positions, to the point where many of them see enough reinforcement from their peers to avoid even a hint of introspection. If you're working on in-service equipment, you'll likely be surrounded by them. If you're on the bad projects, then you'll need to love being told exactly what to do and how to do it using methods that are about twenty years out of date, with no hope of ever improving anything. If you want to be on the cutting edge, have any autonomy, or be respected for understanding any post-9/11 technologies, then joining Leonardo is a risky proposition. You might land in the right place in the company...but those places aren't the ones with the vacancies.
