Pros: The Chinese development office in Shanghai is rapidly expanding, and this offers potential for career growth.

Cons: The opportunities for career growth are not balanced with compensation, nor with realistic expectations from their overseas employees. For example: As a global company, meetings are scheduled across time zones. This is normal; however, meetings are frequently scheduled at absurd times, such as 4 AM or 1 AM on Saturday night. Software development life cycles are too aggressive because Chinese managers can't say no (and lose face) to their American or European bosses. The human resources department is nearly useless. The HR Director is literally never available. She was given the job because she's friends with the Chinese operations manager, not because she's competent. The result is that standard HR requests, such as reimbursement for healthcare, go unanswered. Why does senior management allow this to happen? Because they're clueless (or don't care) about the operations in Shanghai.

Pros: Best for new and junior candidates.

Cons: There are no cons in the company.

Pros: People and products are interesting and world-class. There is no shortage of opportunity to change the world there.

Cons: The company is very hard to move. There is a strange dichotomy between risk aversion in the parts of the business that make all the money (CAD Software) and a complete lack of accountability in the science project side of the house.