Pros
1. The campus is really nice, with gym, subsidized cafeteria, basketball courts, daycare center, the works. The company really takes care of employees. 2. Other teams OUTSIDE of the royalty team are pretty up to date with tech, and actually behave like a team within a tech company would 3. Personal appointments are the only time any flexibility or understanding is granted 4. The team is a group of really good humans at the end of the day, even if their management skills are severely lacking
Cons
1. Pre-pandemic, if you ever needed to work from home, you needed to either have a super sick child to tend to or be approved by all of management weeks in advance with a superbly legitimate reason in their eyes. The managers must be so upset they can't check to make sure people are in their cube at all times with COVID office shutdowns nowadays. 2. Finished work early? NOPE. Stay your full 8 hours. We're still in 1999. 3. When you interview, they talk about all these "growth opportunities", but once you're in, those opportunities NEVER come to fruition. 4. Don't bet on ever getting promoted, there are already 5 managers who have already been there for 10+ years, and NO ONE is going anywhere. There are several others already "in line" who have been waiting for YEARS. 5. You spend your first 4-6+ months reading a binder the size of two encyclopedias and doing a bunch of fake practice work before they trust you to finally do beginner work even college interns would tire of. Over the span of your first year, unless you were lucky with timing, and someone who carried a large load quit, don't expect to use your brain too much. 6. You have to be blessed with the right manager to get substantial work, and that only happens if you got lucky that the people under the good managers left and you got hired into their spot. Otherwise, you're out of luck. Fulfillment from work = 0 and you're just paying bills at that point. 7. Managers frequently forget the expectations they communicate and somehow even when you do what you're told (despite suspecting otherwise), you're the one to blame if something goes awry. 8. The managers are like a club against all the staff, they all talk about everyone behind their backs behind closed doors, so everyone knows everything about you, including that time you didn't notice that the comma was missing in Paragraph 2, line 47 of contract #8 amendment 7. 9. When you finally realize you haven't exercised ANY of your excel skills or analytical background that you've spend the first decade of your career strenuously building, two years will have flown by and you will also realize you need to get out of there if you want to work somewhere intellectually stimulating where you can actually further your career. Try not to stay too long, you'll stunt your career. Learn whatever there is you think is worth learning, and get out.