Pros
None recently. I've dreaded going to work every single day at this company because I couldn't think of a single positive lately. Not having to return has been the highlight of my past several years.
Cons
This is just a downright horrible place to work. Stock may be going up, but this company will absolutely fail in the future in the direction it's going. Facilities are in near-disrepair in many locations - roofs leaking onto peoples' desks/computers, bathroom stalls with broken and missing doors, dirt and dust-covered floors, etc.; parking is abysmal and over-hiring without infrastructure has started to fill the overflow lots and office-space is non-existent with people sharing desks and working in closets. Unless you're at the office by 6:30 you'll be needing to park off-site and enjoy a 10-25 minute shuttle ride which gets very old very quickly. Company culture is an arrogant obsession with name and brand and quantity over quality. A lot of submarines are produced. A lot of them have problems and shortcuts are taken constantly to cut costs. Multi-million dollar mistakes from sub-standard design processes occur far too often and are shrugged off by project leads. All departments point fingers at each other for failures and shortcomings instead of working together to address them. Needless to say, problem solving is not a strength of this company nor its management. And god help anyone who tries... the only discipline I saw was to those who attempted to actually fix something broken, and they got attacked and threatened viciously by exposing and owning up to (on the department level) a problem. Old is better than New and there is no striving for change or improvement or empowering new hires. Engineers have a bizarre workload that either consists of being totally overworked or doing absolutely nothing; group-level workloads are assigned to individuals - often by management to cripple them - while others sit there twiddling their thumbs joking around all day. Processes are ill-maintained and convoluted. Use of software to enhance these has no/outdated documentation and are conceptualized by people who do not know anything about development and said developers are MIA from software/tool requirements meetings, where half the time the product comes back wrong, faulty, or unintuitive because they got left out of communication somewhere. In the case of design work, there is more than one way to skin the cat to make 3D models, but only one way to do it properly in NX with existing systems with data, so many models outright don't work and constantly need to be rebuilt, often times going through the same process being done by the same people who have no idea how to do it correctly because there is no documentation on how to do so, or the documentation is old/wrong. New hires' futures are entirely up to luck; some will be coddled and be invulnerable to failure, others will get royally screwed and management and supervision will stay silent all the way through while offering no support or guidance if there are signs of struggling. Seeing a 20-something in their first week with barely an understanding of the naming conventions and no enterprise experience be assigned an entire project with no senior supervision or assistance is damning. Compensation is decent at entry level but benefits are falling fast and raises are poor. Benefits were a big appeal to starting and they're eroding every year. Raises are a pittance and don't keep up with inflation. Without promotions I'd have effectively been earning less than when I started by a non-insubstantial margin. Management is inept and corrupt across the board. Very much a clique and are more obsessed with getting their names on projects than seeing those projects through correctly. They partake in harassment and deny it when confronted. HR is buddy-buddy with many managers and gets things swept under the rug. No-recording policy (for obvious security reasons) in this respect gets abused heavily.