Pros
No more pros. The company used to be very good about 3 to 4 years ago ( Good Benefits / work life balance ) before the senior management in technology changed. As per FINRA's website: FINRA's mission is "Our mission is clear—to provide investor protection and promote market integrity" The Technology management wants to take it to a service provider and make the compay commercial ( which is not FINRA's mission).
Cons
1) The management looks at older / loyal / senior employees as a burden and wants to get rid of them. 2) The are running a theme caled tech skill set refresh where they are bringing in new college freshers and junoir folks and replacing the older employees. 3) The technology office made a few very bad decisons which resulted in loss of big 2 projects worth Billions of dollars 4) They are in a lay off spree. 5) There is no clear certainity of the job or career here 6) The management is not sure what tech diection to go after a big failure following the decsion to go to open source and a major reorg. 7) The health insurance is getting worse year by year 8) Extremely stressfull agile enviornment. 9) No mid year performance feedback. You get shocked one time at the end of year when it comes to your ratings and bonus. 10) HR does nothing to help. 11) There is a sense of insecurity . Even the manager is scared that his subordinate may over shadow him if he is given opportunities that gives him visibility . You will be stuck doing your routine day to day task for atleat 10+ horus a day with no recongition for doing something that might have saved a very bad day. 12) As a result of no career growth/no salary increase and an undeserved bad review lot of senoir employees are resigning.