Pros
It’s a great place if you want to fly under the radar, do the bare minimum, and watch a company slowly cannibalize its own technical talent.
Cons
If you’ve seen the movie Office Space, working here will give you intense déjà vu. This is a corporate environment built for the politically skilled, the short-timers, and the backstabbers who have zero professional pride. The Management: Much like Lumbergh, the leadership here is fundamentally incompetent. When things go wrong, managers immediately shift the blame downward onto the talented, hard-working engineers and employees who actually keep the lights on. They hide their own technical ignorance by burying productive people in paperwork and artificial metrics. The Growth: Growth potential for actual talent is nonexistent. The highest-level positions are occupied by political players who secretly hate the company but know how to play the game. If you pride yourself on your craft, you will be passed over for someone who is just good at corporate theater. In fact, working hard for the betterment of the company is a liability; if your management views your competence as a competitive threat, it just puts you first on the layoff list. The Consultants: To top it off, just like the movie, outside consulting firms are brought in to engineer layoffs, gutting the teams that do the real work while protecting the dead weight at the top.
