Pros
+ Opportunities to travel or relocate but also plenty of variety of jobs you can do without leaving the headquarters site. Something for everyone - you can keep doing something different every couple of years or you can find your niche and develop as a technical expert. + Fantastically helpful coworkers in a supportive, can-do work environment. + Excellent mentoring and onboarding in some parts of the organization. + Great advancement opportunities for young people, at least in your first ten years. + Exciting molecular recycling effort that can make a real difference for the planet.
Cons
- Frenetic pace of work that keeps getting faster. Management's response lately has been to focus on holding meetings more productively, but meetings aren't the issue for most of us; there is just too much to do. - Pay increases have been less than half the rate of inflation the last couple of years, even for high achievers. As a result, there is a lot of turnover, which makes things more difficult for the ones who stay. - Involuntary reductions in force are coming more frequently now - every couple of years. There are people who have been here for full, long careers but they have had to make it through numerous layoffs. - While the molecular recycling effort is exciting, there seem to be a lot of eggs being put in that one basket. - Optimism is a required behavior...saying anything negative can get you bumped down in your performance ratings because you're not being optimistic enough.