Great stepping stone not a great long term career solution
Pros
Excellent engineering team High level of knowledge and skill. Nine engineering staff are male and three female. These three female engineers are brilliant and will be the only thing keeping you sane as you navigate your manager. Interesting projects The work completed is brilliant and very interesting, projects based all over the world so there is diversity. International team The South Asia, Middle Eastern and Indian managers are where the true knowledge and training lies. If you can, try to get as such training from their teams. Your manager will not provide anything close.
Cons
Management Most of your role will be wasted navigating the toxic and incompetent world of HR, who is unsurprisingly also 'head' of about 4 other departments (because they cannot maintain staff), your role manager is also HR, let that sink in. In this role you report directly to them and they will make the experience as difficult as possible, I still have an email from HR threatening to give me more (tight deadline) work if I kept asking for training or direction. Be very careful with your ideas and intellectual property and do not bother trying to seek support through their internal policies, they do not exist and upper (Sydney) management are just as toxic. Pay Heavily below market average. This is not a role that you can ask for more money, there is no paid overtime, you will just be told to come in late or take extra time during lunch. Make sure you write down every occurrence of this, it will help when your manager inevitably ask you why you have been taking long lunches or come in late. That is your toxic little workflow cycle and this tactic will be used on you as a management style. Honestly, I never been gaslit so violently, especially by a female staff member and 'leader' of the company. Environment Depressing, no one really wants to be there and everyone has their own experience of poor management, being forced to work in an unsafe working environment and/or the horror of any interaction with HR. The environment is also male dominated which in normal companies usually means that you find the most brilliant female teams, inspiring and knowledgeable women who have trail blazed and carved out their place in the role, not afraid to share their wisdom. Not here. You will be faced with the worst administration and higher business development (female only) teams that I have ever experienced, you will be bullied, isolated and under resourced. These women do not support women and are not ashamed to openly behave as such.