Pros
- adds Brand value to your resume for future employment - if you are good at office politics or have powerful friends till higher up, you don't need to work or even come to work and you'll get promotions
Cons
- Management thinks of you as daily-wage labor/slaves who don't have any knowledge - if your Work life balance is maintained, you are probably going to get laid off, so make sure your life is a mess and you should always be working for your master - they may pay you good in the beginning, but you'll only get promotions if you know someone up high in the management. - the technologies and products are getting obsolete and the company is busy fighting internal battles. - new technologies, like Dockers & containers are considered a threat but there are no actions to innovate - top and middle management have close to none technical experiences, they are coming from times of early 1990's when they wrote code in VB and knowing Java and .NET was a specialization they just know about, hence do not understand the pains of Engineering staff - all the development decision are even made by the old time architects/Sr Staff Engineers who too are on their high horses and too proud to be given such responsibility that a Staff Engineer, Sr. MTS or MTS-3 or MTS-2 are all considered stupid to make any decisions and the worst part, management supports such behavior - its a toxic workplace, colleagues are made to compete with each other based on number of bugs you can fix or number of tests you can write or number of lines of code you are writing, ergo, if you fix 2 major bugs and someone fixed 10 minor bugs, you are an idiot who can fix only 2 bugs in given time when your colleague is fixing 10 bugs in the same time. Major and Minor doesn't matter in management's head to an extent there are monetary prizes and globally recognized honor to fix more bugs hence "highly motivating" the employees to fix MORE bugs doesn't matter how important. - People manager also titled R&D Managers who last wrote code when Clinton was president or I should say, when John Howard was the prime minister, are highly inexperienced, impatient, ruthless and have low regard for your skills or career or your life. Their aim is to just please their bosses even if it means destroying your life.
