Pros
Benefits Many opportunities for Embedded work The facilities are well designed for development (offices, lab areas) Lab and test equipment excellent Job for life if you are complacent
Cons
Tendency to retain senior/middle managers who seem to collect salary but do little else. These same individuals end up with meaningless titles and head up initiatives - read talk shops with delayed execution. When they run out of things to do, new titles created. Titles get invented arbitrarily, reorgs frequent and lack logic. See above. HR is overly staffed with little to do besides organize events and salaries are not competitive. Do not expect to work on software languages and technologies prevalent in the industry Definite not invented here attitude Do not expect cutting edge software development tools
