Pros: Never-ending challenges, high technology, good pay and benefits. Opportunities for professional growth are good to excellent if one takes advantage of existing resources and opportunities. For an IT professional like myself, unless you are a project manager or analyst, you will have a more stable career path rather than as a coder or deep technical specialist.

Cons: Bloated management structure, few opportunities for promotion, confrontation averse. Current work atmosphere is one of doom and gloom, and adds to the pressure of meeting deliverables with additional staff being fired on a regular basis. There is a huge cultural inertia that prevents new ideas or process changes from taking place due to embedded policies, organizational silos, and personal fiefdoms. Until Mulally can focus on changing the culture to position it for future growth rather than firefighting to save the ship, it is probably best to watch safely from afar.

Pros: Easy, chill, laid-back. Too many broken things.

Cons: Boring and political. Uneducated management. It can be a con if you’re stupid.

Pros: Pay and benefits are very competitive. Management is flexible to different working arrangements (flexible scheduling, telecommuting). One can see their work in action in real products.

Cons: One must be prepared to drop everything to resolve assembly plant issues. Working in a global team requires extra care and attention to details and timing.