Pros: People are nice. I get along with most of them.

Cons: Terrible management. Almost impossible to get promoted before 3-4 years of working there.

Pros: Amazing engineers, problems, opportunities, and engineering teams.

Cons: Management is completely disconnected, with no accountability. You'll be lucky to get a 2% raise while they get > 10% raises. Most depressingly, they don't actually know how engineers do their jobs or how to make them productive. All of their decisions are geared to make it harder to be a successful engineer.

Pros: A great place to spread your wings and test your limits. You will always find multiple people smarter than yourself or a group to work with that shares your common interests or directions. There is a very high value on strategic competency, and with that comes incredible autonomy. With the appointment to lead a problem-solving team often comes an open checkbook and the awesome responsibility that entails.

Cons: As with academic environments, you put a bunch of really smart people in a room, and there is often debate – sometimes too much debate, unless there is a strong leader who can implement clear processes. Easier said than done. The overhead for managers to lead multi-geography teams for either projects or management structure is overwhelming, and from what I've seen, continues to be a major stumbling block to execution efficiency. Constant iteration of business plans, because there is staffing to do so in Marketing/Planning, is a heavy burden compared to other companies, to the technical staffs.