Pros
They offer fantastic benefits, competitive salary, great PTO that increases with number of years of state service, good work/life balance, good opportunities for advancement, free gym access, including group classes, good management that listens, you are rewarded for good work.
Cons
Parking is expensive (it's charged on a tiered level: the larger your salary, the higher your parking costs) & in high demand. If you can take Metro, or don't mind parking in a garage further away & taking the MDA shuttle, it will save you a lot of money. Dr. DiPinho really screwed the institution by being overly cocky & not listening to recommendations & warnings from others which cost MDA over $600M in losses in just a few months, which cost almost 1000 really great people to lose their jobs through no fault of their own. Hopefully they will find a better replacement for him.