Pros: Easy work pressure and good benefits.

Cons: Pay is less, and some places have a little difference in work culture.

Pros: You learn the deep value of this quote: "The only thing necessary for evil to exist is for good people to remain silent." - Edmund Burke

Cons: Short Answer: Very bad management, poor work ethics, and has no respect for the rule of law. Long Answer: EEOC non-compliant (e.g., when employed and in an elevator in building 3, I overheard two men in management talking extremely unprofessionally about one of their own colleagues, who happened to be a woman they wanted terminated). Does not adhere to critical U.S. Department of Labor guidelines (e.g., accountability tracking failures where Project/Process Managers continually avoid task/ticket creation and EEOC guidelines despite numerous requests to supply or adhere. For contractors: "Lose your job now or lose it later," was the choice). Lots of rat race politics (e.g., you follow instructions given by your supervisor, fix something without getting a ticket despite numerous requests to your supervisor, provide a fix and non-subjective report as requested by your supervisor, and then get thrown under the bus by your own supervisor). No respect for the rule of law (e.g., a contractor confessed details about my supervisor performing an act of defamation of character against me, but my supervisor refused to provide any tangible evidence to back up his claim). Dishonest & Manipulative (e.g., I was brought onboard for a one-year contract-to-hire agreement to perform a specific role. Throughout my tenure, I had a job title that was not aligned with the set expectations. Midway through training, they pulled me out and had me start on reverse engineering a technology they led me to believe was proprietary to them. After the work was completed and thoroughly documented, I was mistakenly informed of the origin of the code. Further research showed it was closed-source code belonging to IBM, and I was used as a tool to avoid forking up $100,000 to IBM for a solution. They gave me a two-week notice of early contract termination, but when I started asking questions, they threw me under the bus and used everything in their power to discredit me). Potentially outsourcing to India (e.g., an unconfirmed rumor, but the PM was just switched to a dissident from India. His immediate adviser is also a dissident from India. The office is quickly segregating into Indian nationals who are both supportive of or subjective to U.S. cultures. But as stated about rat race politics above, they will be adherent to the threat of job loss).

Pros: The benefits were great, the coworkers easy to work with, and the work/life balance was wonderful. The projects were actually very challenging, if somewhat dry.

Cons: Communication from senior management seemed poor to non-existent. The projects we worked on were very dry. There wasn't much room for creativity or out-of-the-box ideas. One would say that banks are expected to be that way, though.