Pros
Good brand, good history, benefits better than average. Some great people work here, There are some good Managers among the "will do anything to get on" brigade which are unfortunately on the increase.
Cons
Performance Management (Not changed despite claims to the contrary) Smoke and mirrors with a pretence of a change. Openly told to "distribute" your team or be marked down, followed in the next breath by "there is no forced distribution". unregretted leavers replaced by "healthy churn" same thing disguised by including all forms of leavers, but focus on kicking people out and a witch hunt to ensure a certain number of so called "poor performers" are exited to meet targets. Pioneers programme is great, but its core principles are not observed from the top, why waste all that money if you have no intention implementing a genuine change from the top? And by the way, meritocracy does not mean spend one hour a week talking about who we can kick out and how the kicking out is progressing. Makes coming to work depressing,