Pros
- Good benefits - Reliable bonuses (if you manage to get a Green rating every year, this is extremely difficult) - Generally speaking, great colleagues (Sadly, often this really dilutes further, the more you go up the org. chart. There is some great people who hold higher positions, but the ratio is far less)
Cons
- Career growth is up to chance and circumstance. And of course politics. - More reorganizations, budget and head count limitations. - Strain on high performers as workload increases due to attrition and new resources are denied, positions closed / frozen. They are burning the candle both ways. - Management is slow to take action, disconnected from their teams, unable to support either due to negligence, or rather a core issue at organizational level that prevents them, and that they are unwilling to challenge upwards, or be more transparent downwards. - A concerning trend on AI adoption. It is not outright said, but if they can get away with framing the reduced head count as an 'opportunity' to embrace AI to bridge the gap, they absolutely will, even if it does not always make sense to do so. - The other side of this coin is that innovation and AI initiatives are severely hindered by the amount of red tape involved (Legal, Risk, etc.).