Pros
Free breakfast Free coffee Located around good eating spots Occasional Pizza events Extra company holidays
Cons
1. The Professional services unit uses home grown development tools that are completely outdated and not at all scalable in terms of parallel development and from learning and general programming skills perspective. The higher management does not care about replacing it and it costs lot of extra development effort that is absorbed in project estimates. 2. Professional services team or customization team is a direct customer of the R&D team but they don't treat them that way. 3. R&D team members are outright rude and high headed. 4. Engineers on the PS team have to work late not because of the complexity of the projects but because of the complexity of the home grown outdated tool that they are compelled to use. 5. 8 out of 10 projects run over budget and miss deadlines because the issues related to the homegrown dev environment are highly unpredictable. 6. Team morale and team member growth is of least priority. 7. Project managers are dumb and usually pester devs with "Whats the status?" questions.