Pros: Loved the people, and the snacks! A great company to do an internship with!

Cons: None I can think of. The pay is fairly good, but maybe not as good as some other companies might provide.

Pros: Great colleagues. Great benefits. Good compensation. Decent work-life balance. Some software projects are interesting. Lately, they are improving how software projects are run. There has been some relaxing of the unending emphasis on Time-to-Market (i.e., deliver something ASAP) to actually taking the time to build something cool.

Cons: Old and proprietary technology. There is no way around this. The terminal is an artifact from the 80s, with several paint jobs. But hey, it works! There are some teams working on cool stuff, but they are the exception rather than the norm. Management is rigid, and there is quite a bit of politics. Not always a meritocracy – more like a favoritocracy. But that is a fact of life everywhere. Big brother atmosphere, where everything is monitored. Lately, this has been improving.

Pros: Takes great care of engineers, doesn't kick older ones to the curb, and usually has challenging work to do. Great for ancient-technology spelunkers.

Cons: We used to rush new features out too quickly, leading to decades' worth of weird legacy systems that few understand, with no real automated testing. Now, we're focused more on stability and making better choices, but the pace of improvements is slower, and the overall risk hasn't really been balanced out yet. Some problems with managers who did things the old way are still in charge, but we're trying to adjust.