Pros
1) Excellent co-workers: I was new to industry, and to engineering work in general, and everyone, especially my manager, was supportive and kind. We did lunch a lot (FREE) and talked and joked like happy employees should. 2) Nice blend of office and on-site work: I worked half of the time at the office and half of the time on the construction site 30 minutes away from the office. (Naturally, my project was under-construction and some of the project engineers were in a 2 year design phase and did not get out of the office as much) 3) Interesting combination of a large company operating at a seemingly small business level: the engineering division especially was individually based, with many of the engineers working on separate projects with little interface. 4) Ability to talk to senior management, I'm talking COO and CEO level. This was really cool. You can get the bigger picture.
Cons
1) Management and business development seemed to be moving faster than engineering could keep up, yet this is typical. 2) Because it is based in Houston, people were definitely job hopping, so to speak. Within the 3 months I was there, 2 high level co-workers left to work with different midstream oil companies in the area.
