Pros
job is secure, you'll have stable income especially in the current pandemic
Cons
1. complete disrespect for procurement staff by engineers and users. despite procurement hiring mostly uni grads with a good honors, engineers treat us as nothing more than administrative staff and push us around. when mistakes are made, engineers are never blamed, only procurement staff. procurement staff are looked down on and are often on the receiving end of such arrogance. 2. no proper guidance or training is given, but you are expected to know everything under the sun about complex and unclear govt procurement rules and advise engineers anyway. the end result is new staff either get blamed for inevitable mistakes while trying to clear their workload, or become very inefficient as they try to protect themselves by clarifying the vague processes with various levels of management with emails here and there. 3. extremely high workload due to top-heavy bureaucracy and exponential increase in bureaucratic rules and new requirements. staff to projects ratio is so imbalanced that you have to choose to let some projects miss deadlines or you'll never be able to clear your work. even simple emails have to be cleared by layers of management and WFH during covid exposed the severe inefficiencies in the work processes. management has done nothing substantial to address this and many staff are burnt out from difficulties. 4. infighting and workplace bullying is common, and many staff have intentions to leave at the earliest opportunity due to mistreatment by managers who do not lead by example and use their appointment to pull rank on junior staff. it's an extremely toxic environment to work in and i do not recommend anyone to join unless you have no other options.