Pros: Good pay and benefits; decent work/life balance; work on industry-leading products; stable employment with rare layoffs; encouragement to find new opportunities within the company; plenty of good, solid people to work with.

Cons: Competitive pay and benefits seem to aim for average. Vacation time can be upset by manufacturing and product release cycles. Getting things done can be slow and tangled in bureaucracy. Significant communication overhead (email, IMs, meetings). Coordinating across worldwide time zones is painful. Difficult to drive change and improvements. Lots of meetings and a seeming expectation to be immediately reachable and interruptible when working. Regular reorgs. Management often seems disconnected from engineers and engineering work. Always stretched thin and understaffed despite having so many employees. Business decisions often don't make sense. Plenty of mediocre coworkers to suffer through.

Pros: Good people, good working environment.

Cons: The company is straggling lately.

Pros: Great pay, great bonuses, mostly good people. Lots of projects and lots of groups. The company has a lot of cash to do things like fly you to other states for meetings on the corporate jets.

Cons: Hiring boom, followed by layoff boom. Lather, rinse, repeat. Be very careful with your career. Everything your manager says about you is noted, and when the layoffs come, one simple comment from your manager can make the difference between you being on the street or having continued employment.