Pros
The culture of curiosity and investigation. Good health coverage with convenient on campus facilities. Relatively generous vacation and personal day policies. Wide availibility of technical and social activities.
Cons
Annual compensation increases tend not to keep up with inflation. Although the policies are fairly generous and most peer and supervisior interations are positive, human resources as a department if fairly obstructionist if issues do come up between emplyees and supervisor and more interested in problem issolation than resolution. (pick your supervisor and peers well in your interview ). Also while equipment and physical resources are easy to aquire expanding personel (even if demonstrably cheaper than adding equipment and external contrats) can be difficult whech results in cronic (though not generally severe) understaffing.