Pros
A great campus for employees with good cafeterias, gym, swimming pool, on-site child care and other facilities like ATM, postal service, healthcare clinic etc. Life is more manageable working in SAS. Lots of resources for learning and access to great R&D team is a huge plus being in Cary.
Cons
Top management is excellent but middle management sucks! It is like working in a group of dictators who are part of the company for at least 10 years and knows the best and care less about company's interest. Feeding their own ego comes before everything else. If you are a type A personality and you have to report to a manager who is below VP level this job might destroy you no matter how creative or how talented you are. However few departments are outside of it. In general salary is at least 15%-30% lower than the market.