Pros
Pay is pretty competitive, not too many other choices in the financial services industry in Houston, maybe not as volatile as the oil and gas industry.
Cons
IT here used to be focused on delivering and supporting quality systems and building strategic relationships with key business leaders. We were good at this, and ultimately got taken for granted. Focus shifted to cost savings, "innovation" and other goofy IT trends like "Lean IT". Senior leadership in the company expected more leveraged solutions across the whole company to save money, without having the stones to mandate this to the business group leaders. They expected IT to magically make the business units agree to work together even though they had no real incentive to do so.