Pros: Used to have free lunch. Not anymore. Cannot think of anything else.

Cons: If you are going there, just keep this in mind. You can be Albert Einstein and be the smartest in the world, but you don't get promoted easily. Everything here works based on relationships. Very long, extra hours of work without pay! Zero work-life balance. Erratic rules: be a buddy to your manager, and you can come at 10 AM and leave at 5 PM, no problem. Otherwise, arrive at 8:05 AM, and you can be in trouble.

Pros: Free food, which is not all that great. A monopoly position in its market helps allow for massive wastage of resources (see below).

Cons: Innumerable. Huge bureaucracy, ritualistic, cult-like atmosphere, bizarre Big Brother monitoring everywhere. Does everyone really need to know where and when you badged in and out? Entire teams that do little to nothing. Regular need to tell managers to pi** off when they attempt to bully you. Mind-numbingly boring work. Early 1980s technology hasn't changed a bit. And lastly, now that the owner has returned, having exhausted his political adventure, it is like Odysseus returning to Ithaca, and there will be major lettings go, new joiners first.

Pros: - Only need to work 8 hours a day. - The company has enough resources to allow developers to experiment. In over 30 years of operation, it has never had a year of negative growth, so there is no "sink-or-swim" mandate. - The training program for non-CS entry-level hires is a great way to transition into software. - Teams are small and functional-focused, so developers get a lot of code ownership. - The company grows fast, so there are opportunities to move up. This must be taken with a grain of salt, since there are thousands of developers at the company, but many of the team leads have only worked there for 3-4 years, sometimes less. - Jumping between groups is highly encouraged, so even if you don't want to manage people, you can always try something new. The process is well-defined, so no need to go behind your manager's back. - Get to learn about the financial domain, which has a lot of interesting algorithmic, computational, mathematical, and big-data problems.

Cons: A lot of the technology is proprietary or old, making transitioning in or out of the company difficult. New technologies do show up, but it takes time, requires political navigation, and rarely has coverage across the whole company. Business managers often push back when developers try to invest in stability or code cleanup, which is obviously bad in the long-term.