Pros
Great training, new and excellent equipment, can work anywhere in the state, plenty of teams and specialty units (those seem to be diminishing regularly though - state wide drug interdiction was recently disbanded).
Cons
Was a Trooper for over three years and there is a whole essay I could write about the negative direction this department is going, but I will keep it rather short and simply highlight a few things. Also, for what it is worth, I separated from the department on my own terms. I'll start by saying MSP has HORRID policies. Troopers get jammed up for nonsense things. Micromanagement - I'll leave it at that. Upper leadership / IA will throw you under the bus without gathering all of the details if they believe it will somehow enhance their image. Funny enough, they almost always choke by taking that approach, but by the time it's all said and done the local media and criminal empathizers of society don't care about the incident any longer - only people who get screwed over are the Troops and their families. I know a dozen other Troopers currently employed looking to jump ship somewhere else. Very 'woke' / liberal culture and view of policing. Leadership discussing distaste for 'pre-text stops'. Leadership forcing DT instructors to teach recruits that a strike to the face requires great bodily harm for justification. The list goes on and on and on. Do yourself a favor and go somewhere else if you have ANY aspirations of going after "bad guys" and catching criminals. Heck, go somewhere else if you want to make "routine" traffic stop and not worry that somehow, someway, you might be reviewed and found to have looked at the driver too aggressively (that is a half joke). The best 'go-getter' Troops I know have all been jammed up one way or the other, some most recently have been fired and criminal charges unjustly sought. The citizens of Michigan should be ashamed at what their state agency has evolved into, disgusting.