Pros
Decent salary and benefits while they lasted.
Cons
Outsourcing. AEP openly lays off older workers and has you agree to not pursue age discrimination lawsuit in order to get severance. Layoffs in IT are horrible. Last big one was done in a Teams meeting where manager and about 40 employees were in. Quick “You are no longer an AEP employee” 5 minute meeting. 25 years at company. In that time worked over 1000 hours unpaid overtime. Rarely took a sick day. Trained new people who eventually kept their job and I lost mine ( don’t train people who can replace you ). Was healthy, exercised and ate right, and rarely needed expensive healthcare ( just checkups) . None of my hard work, healthy habits, unpaid overtime counted. I was just too old and was being paid well ( too expensive and too old). Horrible people in IT management. AEP is a very bad choice for any person looking to make a career in IT here and investing time and hard work to be treated like trash and thrown out.