Pros: Good work-life balance. Pace of business is not cutthroat. Decent pay and benefits. Stock has been doing well.

Cons: Limited room for promotions, especially at the higher levels. Established organization power structures among known peoples cause a complacent attitude and rigidity. This is unfair to people not belonging to the "group".

Pros: Work-life balance Good colleagues

Cons: Pay is average. Legacy Systems

Pros: Pay is competitive and, in most cases, above board.

Cons: Employees are aggressive and combative. The atmosphere is volatile and political. There are incentives for collaboration (like a visa gift card), but if your manager doesn't "like" the group or individual you helped, then it will come out on your review. HR is spineless. They came to me when someone filed a complaint against GIS management to corroborate the incident. When I did, the manager, in a status meeting, stated that "when he finds the person involved" in helping HR, they would "pay." When HR was told about this by another source, that individual was told to "grow up."