Pros
Strong health insurance. Better coverage than almost anywhere Ive found. Informal work culture (very casual dress) Lots of wonderful, dedicated people work here. Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) is an added retirement benefit for most employees. Profit sharing through consistent (if modest) quarterly bonuses. A mission statement that ends with "Have fun and make money." For manufacturing, facilities, and admin positions, this is a great place to work. Good jobs, decent pay, on-the-job training, and a very low bar for entry-level skill requirements. Pay isn't anything spectacular for these hourly positions, but it isn't terrible and the strong benefits do compete well with other area employers. The CEO, Fred Foster, is revered by most everybody there, and for good cause; he's an exceptional guy with a great vision for the company and a big heart for his employees.
Cons
Generally low pay for professionals, by a significant amount. Lots of incompetent managers who are never sniffed out due to an entrenched top-down management philosophy. Culture of fear and retribution cultivated by the management/personal philosophies of the President and COO stifles innovation and dissuades people from taking initiative. Employees have almost no say in key decisions that will affect them; They are expected to "shut up and put up". Dissent, critical thinking, and independence are regularly ignored or punished. Pushing for rapid growth without prior preparation and investment has stretched many departments beyond their abilities, creating a stressful, almost vicious work environment where hastiness and lack of attention to detail dominates. Hierarchical management structure has rendered many managers powerless to reward good employees while nepotism and favoritism have consistently sheltered and promoted bad ones. HR is a department that wields CONSIDERABLE power and helps to breed the culture of retribution and fear. BEWARE. If you're in professional/salary-type work, or looking for a long-term career, this isn't the place for you. Salaries for professionals (engineers, project managers, IT, marketing, technical, accounting, etc.) are unjustifiably low for the area, especially considering the high expectations and low managerial support for salaried positions. As a result, a lot of mid- and low-level talent finds a permanent home here, which makes it a lot harder on those who take their jobs seriously. If advancement is your plan, forget it. True advancement opportunities are few and far between. Lots of transfers, but with only a few pay grades across all departments it's hardly "advancement" and somehow management uses your old salary as the starting point for your new, you're capped to a 5% raise or less at any time. The Peter Principle reigns supreme here; those who are promoted to their level of incompetence stay there and no amount of success, achievement, talent, accountability, or notoriety will get you to advance past them, that is, unless you're personally acquainted with or related to certain individuals near the top. If you're outspoken, unorthodox, question authority, or tend to swim against the stream, you'll be defeated at every step. Yes-persons do well here, especially those who shamelessly self-promote, lack accountability, and tend to blame underlings for their own incompetencies.