Pros
Benefits are decent. Initial pay was good. Good and smart team members.
Cons
zero organization in IT at least with the groups I dealt with on a daily basis. There seems to be some middle management and leaders that have good ideas and know how things should be organized but the lack of their bosses being involved with something as petty as titles and reporting structures causes morale issues. I was in one meeting where a manager from another IT department was telling my team what to do. There is nepotism that is mentioned in previous posts but those people really don't do anything so they seem insignificant to any of the real issues. Bad product gets pushed out because of it but upper management wants to sell the software even when it stinks. poor testing and many different deployment methods causes bugs and bad pushes. BAs seem to not know the product, the business or what end users need. Everyone seems to be working on new products and not maintaining current deployments. always on to the next thing. Many times the next thing is incorporating a new company which makes sense. Project Management is non-existent and priorities change constantly. I was pitched modern programming (C++) but its mostly fixing old stuff. The office setup is terrible. Open floor plans and bench seating with a handful of conference rooms that are always taken doesn't allow private conversations and many groups are loud at times. onboarding is a rough process as they throw you in and hope you can swim in the messiness. Forget about raises that are significant even if you take on more responsibility.
