Pros
- The best thing that can happen to you. You will realize that you are worth more than the company makes you think and start looking for new opportunities. Pretty much any offer that comes your way, whether it comes from a customer or a different company, will be worth evaluating. It can't get worse than your current position at the revenue-focused, discriminatory, closed-minded body shop.
- Hope for a project at a customer site. That way the toxic culture doesn't do much to you.
Cons
- It will be a slow and painful process to re-acquire your sense of self worth. Management will belittle you, patronize you, and make you feel that you are overpaid and should be thankful for having and an amazing project. Actually, be thankful to the company that you are working on a project for a world-renowned company - it was their doing. No credit to you.
- Benefits are unequal.
- Favoritism to employees from one country over the other.
- Useless bureaucracy for things that should be simple.