Pros
Downtown office supplies free soda, water, coffee. Highwoods provides MetLife's cafeteria for breakfast and lunch. Pay is slightly above normal because they have to pay it or no one would work there.
Cons
Where to start: 1. Downtown accounting department likes to talk about other employees as hookers and prostitutes and commonly talks about that over dinners and lunches with other people in other departments including the VPs of Finance, Accounting and the CFO. If the conversation is attempted to be stopped, that employee is ostracized and demoralized. It is a culture of vultures preying on those WITH scruples. 2. Can't get promoted. If you try to get promoted, you will be quashed by the other employees and your peers; they will steal your work products, rename them, hide the properties via copy/paste and put their name on it. And they will then say you do nothing to help but in the end, they cannot explain what they do or how to make things better because they don't invest the time to understand other groups. 3. IT director will throw everyone and every CXO under the bus, claim she does their work in order to get higher visibility and degrade the co-workers and executives. At any one time she has blasted the CFO, CIO, CTO, VPs IT, VPs FP&A, VPs Legal, and VPs of Sales. She routinely steals others' work products, lies about how she got them and then uses them as her own. Then she makes sure to degrade others in their performance review so upon subsequent review, the real providers of the information and work products are no longer around to defend themselves against her. 4. This last go round of firings/layoffs ... was unethical at its best. On one particular day, a known IT guy in the finance department was given his 5 year bonus, his award, his kudos for doing a great job, plenty of "atta boys", told he was fine and great things were ahead for him. Within 14 hours, he was one of the 100s let go on March 23rd. Ask yourself: what kind of company thinks that's the right thing to do? To anyone? Finally, I had hope this company would turn around under the calmer, more logical leadership of Mr. Gray. However, it is apparent that even he is unable or unwilling to address the tone at the top of his organization which means, the abusive nature will continue. It's not just tolerated, abuse is condoned.