Pros
Nice co-workers. summers off. Books.
Cons
All the pros are listed above. The cons are too numerous to mention. It's a Good Old Boys Club where it's all about being liked by the right person, not about the job you do. I worked here for several years, and religiously management would go through and chop off heads for no good reason. If you do well, your reward is unrealistic goals the next year and you will be fired if you do not hit the mark. They do not want anyone making too much money. The leadership is lacking in any people skills and they ride on the backs of a very hard working sales staff. People keep this job for a few years tops and then they move on because there is zero potential for upward mobility. The people that are in the many many many tiers of management are there because they have brown noses not because of skill. Anyone with any sense of self respect leaves quickly or is fired. And about those many layers of management. The exist only to make work for the next tier up. The company could cut out (easily) 50-60% of the management jobs, and pay their valuable employees a living wage and make more profit. This company was once about mission and now it's all about profit. Layer upon layer of people good at only kissing butt micromanaging those people them, trickles right down to the poor sales people. They are the only ones with real skills, and within a few years they are feeling hopeless and valueless. It's horrible. Don't work for this company. Just don't all of us in Washington lost our jobs so they could pay the new Vice President a salary he doesn't deserve. Beware.