Pros: Stable. Work-life balance. Professional boundaries. Very structured.

Cons: difficult to grow, or keep up with new tech.

Pros: Great people, good management, and excellent technical support. Current technology tools are adequate to do a proper job as a developer. Better than average pay, good benefits, and bonus incentives.

Cons: Management changes can sometimes be slow and burdened with documentation and approval layers. Technology tools are current but not leading-edge in general.

Pros: Good pay and bonus for good work. Interesting subject matter and excellent management support, but that is highly dependent on your business area.

Cons: 1) It takes a tremendous amount of time to get a small amount of work done. Any change requires multiple levels of approval, usually by people who have no idea technically what the change does or its implications. 2) Hypocritical messaging regarding changing behavior for fixing ethics issues and customer abuse while still exhibiting dubious legal behavior. 3) Some senior developers hide information and resist on-boarding efforts of newer developers to make themselves more valuable. Sink or swim mentality. Assume you have the same knowledge as another developer who has been there for 20 years. Constant use of acronyms and system names in the presence of new employees without explanation so as to make comprehension more difficult. 4) Absurdly cumbersome processes that have no value. For some reason, most seem to think this is acceptable and even engage in enforcing these processes. 5) It can take weeks or even months to get the development tools and access needed to do your job, but you are still expected to get the job done without those tools. The list goes on...too long to list here.