Pros
Salary and benefits are about even with the boutiques in the IT industry. If you're fortunate enough, you may be assigned to a supervisor who gives a damn about your professional development and receive exposure to projects that you can leverage in searching for the next career. Besides that, the company will give you plenty of corporate embroidered backpacks, mugs, and blankets that you can donate to Goodwill.
Cons
PowerPlan's management is a victim of its own indecisiveness and incompetence. They aim to enter the Oil and Gas vertical market, but make zero overtures to develop customized modules for the target demo or overhaul subject matter expertise for industry fluency. The software product platform itself had a timeline to shift from the declining Powerbuilder platform to a web offering, but that initiative was stunted by the surprise layoff of roughly half of the Development team. In recent years, hiring practices within Professional Services have shifted heavily towards recruiting new (i.e. cheap and naive) college graduates, and yet there has been no requisite evolution in product or industry education or training to prepare new hires for the day-to-day job requirements. Given these issues (not to mention the office politics and general opaque nature of management transparency), there's really no surprise here that PowerPlan is struggling to maintain a credible image in the eyes of its stakeholders.