Pros
Good compensation. If it wasn't for the paycheck, I would have walked out day 1. New offices, equipment, kitchens, etc. Free coffee, often free meals or snacks, standard stuff.
Cons
This is where people go who fail to the middle. Complacency everywhere, everyone is basically just doing what they can to not get noticed and go home early. Some Managers (Can't speak for all) preach one thing and practice the complete opposite. When hired, I was told my role would be to change the way that the department runs, then when I attempted to do things differently, was told, "That's not how we do things here." Agile - what a joke. This place is as agile as someone still writing a check at the grocery store. I spend at least 7 hours per week in SCRUM meetings that accomplish nothing aside from watching the manager or PM move incomplete items to the next iteration because they didn't complete them in the current one. This is all done so that they can show their bosses a 100% completion rate instead of actually doing their jobs. It's frustrating, to say the least. Horrible IT, takes WAY too long to even respond to a ticket, much less complete. Prepare to wait for days for any request, no matter how urgent. Need your MS Word updated? Better wait a couple of days. Need your time zone updated on your cpu when traveling? Better put in a ticket and wait a few days.
