Beats flipping burgers but only cause it pays better
Pros
I suppose if you already work there the pro is you are not unemployed. Other than that I can think of none. This company is in a chop shop being made ready to sell off in pieces. There are a few bits of IP that MIGHT make it out alive but if that doesnt happen and soon they will be lost in the race as EVERYONE else has passed every part of this company portfolio except for TOAD which aint enough to keep this beast afloat.
Cons
To the degree that Dell killed the brand its mostly true since Oct 2015 when the EMC talks were announced. Prior to that there were signs of development that would have kept many of the lines relevant and healthy. The October surprise however eviscerated development roadmaps and they suddenly evaporated even as many coming features were in late beta and all but ready for prime time. This is especially true in the DP and EPSM space as EMC's portfolio contained some direct competition, or at least on paper. Networker is garbage, has been since EMC bought it from Legato but it was seen as a competitor to Netvault which wasn’t much better but for a considerably friendlier UI. Both compete against a vastly superior CommVault but all are considerably “old school”. Well, old school still has plenty of life left in it and if you can swing at it Commvault is your best pitch here and I don’t see either Netvault or Networker being serious threats to Simpana…EVER. Avamar is old new tech that was/is expensive and complicated and never caught on the way it deserved prior to and after EMC's taking the wheel. I think it suffered most from being ahead of its time and then not keeping up. It some ways it competed with Appassure but was really quite different in the market perception. Then there is the real competition, Data Domain vs "DR" (really stupid naming convention, Dell excels at this!) This was Ocarina and should have been called that from day one. This was one of the first of Dell's many acquisitions and one they sat on, doing nothing with, for far too long. Had they any clue what it could have been they could have probably taken DataDomain out before they became dominant and before EMC bought them. Hell, they even OEM’ed a DataDomain box while they owned Ocarina. They never used that IP to its fullest and there is still to this day so much amazing code sitting on the shelf rotting because the new owners have no clue what they bought! Removing politics and recent events from the conversation, in its present form the DR's are not really much in the way of competition for DataDomain but damn they could be! Too many factors to go into here but those who know, know what I am on about. So, yes, Dell fumbled and bumbled around with the bits and pieces that now make up Quest while they ostensibly wanted to make money with them. Once they knew they would have them in the garage sale any and all development just stopped and hard enough to deploy airbags. When the company that is now Quest, again, separated in October of 2016 much of the leadership that was to travel with was dismissed and replaced with a group of people who have turned the company into the ice field and sadly I think this ship is soon to be at the bottom the ocean where even James Camron wont be able to find her. There is absolutely no leadership and no direction (other than towards the aforementioned icebergs) and those charged with the task are more interested in telling you how great they are than what their plans for the company might be. Of course that’s just my opinion…I could be wrong.