Pros
BIS than mine. Overall, in my experience, the company wasn't that bad. The people that work there can be some of the nicest people you'll ever meet and I made quite a bit of friends that I'll most likely keep in touch with for the rest of my life. Both of my direct supervisors were great guys that genuinely cared about their employees and their well being. They taught me things that I'd never been able to pick up on my own and they really shaped me into the person that I am professionally today. Being a developer I felt like the middle management over me did their best to keep upper management off of my back. Which allowed me to actually get some work done. BIS is a place where you can get some good baselines skills and a lot of the experience is what you make of it.
Cons
The negatives of the company can be some pretty heavy ones at times. You’ll get two weeks vacation that you begin earning after 6 months but you’ll feel guilty about actually taking it. Reason being, the company has very tight deadlines and over promises on those pretty frequently. With that tight of deadlines, it can leave employees feeling guilty about taking their time off simply because they don’t want to put their team behind schedule. The company also has no defined PTO policy but usually will grant PTO for doctor’s appointments and various other things. However, just like with vacation, most people feel guilty about taking the time off so they will only take a few hours or a day at most. Medical insurance isn’t the greatest, despite what the company preaches in its yearly insurance meeting. For a single person it does okay, but for a family the price is “comparable to the national average” but the coverage you get for it just isn’t. Retirement match was only 3%, which I considered to be low but not a huge negative in the end. Really at the end of the day it all boils down to some good people stuck in really bad situations with their hands tied behind their back by the decisions of the company. The best part of it all is that you’ll be told that the salary is competitive for the area and when you factor in cost of living that you’d not be making any more money by moving to find another job. In the tech industry especially, that can’t be farther from the truth at this point. People are no longer locked to finding jobs just in their small area and even if they are, the industry grows by double digit percentages year after year. Overall, if you need starting experience as a developer then you take whatever dev position you can get at the company.