Pros
Known company, looks good on resume
Cons
Where do I start.. very very conservative company with a lot of old ways of doing things. They sell you the dream but in the actuality offer significantly lower compensation that the current market. Most long term employees that stay have been brainwashed with years of mandatory benefit sessions. The company claims to be employee owned but in the actuality the employees don’t own any stock, only the “stock appreciation” so false advertisement from the start. Salaries are 20-30% lower than the competition, benefits are very similar to other companies and only slightly better so the overall compensation package is not competitive. In order to collect Stock appreciation, you have to stay there for 30 years and the same for pension when they had it. Job security for the long term employees is comparable to government level jobs and everyone knows it so they stop doing their jobs once reaching a senior level because they will not get fired. So as a young employee you will be doing all of the dirty work of your senior bosses.