Pros: Some of the best reasons to work at AT&T include salary, benefits, bonuses if offered in your position, and discounts on services.

Cons: Some of the downsides of working at AT&T include leadership that does not listen to employee feedback. This seems to be one of the biggest challenges for the current CEO, who at one time said it was important to have work-life balance, but is now changing policy that disrupts that important work-life balance that he once championed.

Pros: Pay is ok, benefits are good, especially with many years on the job. Generally good work-life balance, depending on the team/area.

Cons: Cloud migration efforts were pretty much dumped on applications teams to handle themselves with very little support. There are so many layers of bureaucracy, making it hard to get heard or visible to upper management.

Pros: When I joined, it used to be great, working with the newest technology at the time (EJB, J2EE, Java was fairly recent). Even a pension plan. Even stock options. Stock was 60 USD per share.

Cons: Then, little by little, the company started withdrawing benefits. The CEOs started going on buying sprees, taking over other companies, most notably Cingular Wireless, Direct TV, and Time Warner. There was also a failed acquisition of T-Mobile. Options expired worthless. They stopped contributions to the pension cash balance plan. To top it off, they outsourced thousands of employees to different consulting companies to avoid paying full pension in retirement, including yours truly. Now the stock price is in the low 20s. The technology they used was worthless if you wanted to get a job somewhere else since it was a homegrown framework called m2e (model to execution).