Pros: Great stock options. You can't leave.

Cons: Only some legacy money-making teams remain. Work is slow, and the focus is on maintenance, not evolution. A great place to rest and vest.

Pros: Great benefits. If you're in a high-performing division in a given year, a great bonus. Money was not liberally given for projects, yet it did seem to be spent on the most important things to my actual work (computer, software). People are smart and hard-working.

Cons: The focus is more on financial engineering than bold technical innovation. The main strategy by management is to buy other companies with established niches and keep improving the received products until the market has dried up, then repeat. There is no room for home-grown new products or bold new directions. This can make being an engineer feel humdrum due to its constraints. Also, there is relentless cost reduction, where basically everyone everywhere is working harder each year, with continual periodic layoffs.

Pros: Opportunity to learn; new facilities at work.

Cons: Long working hours. Not much visibility from upper management. Benefits keep getting cut back year-over-year because of crazy hiring in the wireless division, but no real revenue is seen yet. The stock price is going nowhere.