Pros
Overall decent benefits and flexible work even if you are not part of the elite.
Cons
The main problem is the massive number of servile followers supporting the current leadership. Countless directors are responsible for the poor results of the institute, many of them are extremely territorial and they are constantly failing to achieve their objectives, in a normal organisation half of them would be fired immediately. Their ego and constant interference is stopping any organisational improvement. Their generous salaries and pension benefits could be used to restore 20 Aldermanbury instead of selling the building and all the belongings just to ring-fence their generous pension fund. Everything is outsourced to incompetent contractors while it's very difficult to grow internally and so many talented people are leaving. Is there a future for an organisation like this ? Behind the scenes the CII is slowly crumbling away, the PR machine won't be able to hide the real state of the Institute forever.