Pros
The first year here was good and when you first come in, the people here will teach you all the things you don't know and you'll feel great because you're learning new and challenging things each day. The people, for the most part, are great to interact with and collaborate with. I made some good friends here. There is a flexible working schedule so if you have appointments and things you need to do (basically life), they understand and you can make your schedule based on those things. You'll get plenty of opportunities to work on different projects which in theory sounds great. But asides from all this, not much else to add.
Cons
To begin with, there is a sense of false advertisement in terms of the role you're hired for. This job is mostly IT, Software, and Analysis based -- there is absolutely no engineering done at all so heads up on that especially specific engineering roles such as Chemical, Electrical, Petroleum, etc. You will not be doing any of these here. When you first start and learn about all the benefits, they tell you about unlimited PTO which is great but as you finish your first year, there is unforced pressure that wains over your head to even think about taking time off because of the project deadlines. Upper management is extremely discombobulated and disrespectful when it comes to managing a place full of younger professionals. These people are much older and come from military backgrounds so definitely expect what they say must be followed without exceptions or discussions. They are too removed from the current reality and think that only they are right and everything has to be done their way -- which makes no sense because they are hiring younger professionals fresh out of college (you hire people to innovate and create not to follow orders when you are wrong). There is also the game of favorites. If you're not one of them, good luck. They will make sure you know you aren't one of them and treat you so differently so that you end up frustrated and want to leave. If you have opinions that they don't agree with, good luck feeling comfortable because they call you out and single you out in front everyone. In your first year, you won't see many of the issues going on around you but as soon as you start your second year, you'll see the different ways management treats people and how they play the office politics game. You lose lots of flexibility and ability to take time off. The pressure and stress increase because there is lack of communication between managers and leads and you have to work "overtime" to make up for their mistakes without even being compensated for it in order to meet your deadlines. They also want you to know what to do without them telling you what to do. It's basically a guessing game and most of the time you're going to guess wrong because you're a creative human-being and have ideas on how to do things a different way but this is not good enough because its not how they would want you to do it. The best part is that when you tell them you're done with a task and it needs review, they tell you to move on to the next set of tasks assuming you did it correctly but only to review it 2 weeks later and then tell you its all wrong and then you have to go back and re-do everything (so fun!). When you have bad managers who teach the project leads their way of managing, you will start seeing people leave as they become unhappy and frustrated.
