Pros
This used to be a great and motivating workplace. It still can be if we turn it around with the right leadership, while we still have our company reputation (and contracts) mostly intact.
Cons
Good and stable technical, functional, and program leadership has widely been forced out to make way for "diversity" candidates. The irony is this has resulted in much younger, less experienced choices of replacements who are themselves very ill equipped to manage a diverse workforce. They are struggling with their own jobs, particularly with the technical aspects of it as well as the finer points of genuine employee encouragement or measured discipline rather than the standard "check boxes of managing people" they get from various avenues of training. In many cases they assign themselves prime technical work to learn from, while neglecting real incentives for the older more experienced folks who are left with no choice but to either work under them or quit. They are selfish and they are not capable of communicating consistently or directly with their direct reports in meaningful ways. And this was before COVID-19. They do not incentivize them or form relationships with them, and they treat them as a means to an end, only. The result is they tend to isolate their older reports rather than engage them. In some cases, I have witnessed some management referring to older workers in general with derogatory language. This has left an entire technically proven and capable group with an unmotivating, defunct career path, since there is not room for them to also continue to develop technically nor develop along the leadership path. Functional and Program Leadership is broken because there is not a strong relationship chain among leadership. So even the capable leaders who do exist, particularly on programs, cannot function as such to their own direct reports because they cannot even trust their own leadership chain. I know first hand of many folks over the age of 45 who are on anti-depressants or seeking personal counseling because of this prolonged way in which the company has been mistreating them. In the last few years, I know of at least one case, possibly two, where additional personal or family issues have pushed someone over the edge and resulted in the loss of job or life. It is unfortunate that a once great work environment for career minded folks now is a place to also be survived rather than a place to thrive making top products.