Pros: Good work-life balance if WFH continues for engineering position.

Cons: Bureaucracy is very heavy. Management quality depends on the team.

Pros: As a new joiner, you are given space to learn on small projects; it's like learning to bring code from college-sized projects to production. Learn to have a growth mindset with the review process. Depending on the team, you will be working with modern tech stacks and get a lot of ownership.

Cons: -Tech is an afterthought. The business side is most important, and engineering does not get compensated or respected as much as it should. -If you are a good communicator, you will be thrown into product management roles and will spend less time growing your technical skills. -The products built for internal users are never quite built out enough. They are built to get the job done but ultimately not given enough resources to grow. Not the place if you want to work on problems of scale.

Pros: Challenging work. Great ambition and expectations in results.

Cons: This dysfunctional department, during my tenure, went through two upper management changes. While the direct manager was trying to give good advice within their own transparency of upper management, the upper managers were not engineering-centric while managing technology projects. The results seemed a reflection of disorganized upper management and a lack of technical aim and direction. Therefore, it would not be realistic to push one's software engineering career under a team of 'project managers' without enough technical background or vision to lead the teams, thus losing staff and stalling careers.