Pros
Coming in from outside the company I was given a strategic role, but mostly, it was a job.
Cons
Within 3 weeks of starting I knew I had made a mistake by taking the job. The best definition I could give of the company would be, "out of touch, scatterbrained, old, technologically lost, and just a failure of ability overall". Based on what I saw in the company I commonly referred to the company as a place where careers go to die and/or a career speed bump. The company has no real direction, other than harvesting and heading for winter. They still use operational techniques from 3 decades ago, which is alarming at best. They will spend heavily on things to fix low priority needs, but they never look at the big picture (pun), they spend more time comparing themselves to sliced bread than what they should actually be comparing themselves to, newspapers. Finally, it is great that they promote from within, but they promote based on time in the company and little else. The leadership in the company is out of touch and out of date, constantly trying to go back to the "golden days" instead of looking ahead. Any mention of change to them, seems to cause them to shiver, because they quickly kill the idea and talk about going back to the "golden days".
