Pros
There are Pros to be mentioned if you're not joining CSS department.
Cons
- Micromanagement to its peak. Most of the managers have climbed to the manager's position just on the basis of there number of years spent with the CSS department though they don't even have any manager like basic qualities. - They don't respect your personal time and managers prime task is to keep track of what time you come and leave, and later in the day did you login from home or not. Utter rubbish!! - The autonomy of work even at senior/lead developer role is not given due to continuous micromanagement and you will feel like quitting your job every day. - AT CSS department there is no development work and nothing is there in future too because CSS department is just meant for maintenance and bug fixing work from US for the software products which were developed 10-15 years ago, so now you can also understand what kind of old technology you will be working on. - Pay scale is also not at par to the industry standards because they hire mainly to keep the headcount for billing the parent branch in US. - In CSS department they do talk about culture and values but contradict them at each and every step. - High attrition rate in the CSS department because of all of the above reasons. - Asking WFH is equivalent to asking for kidneys of manager. You won't believe it, once on taking WFH my manager said that if you are working from home then you should have more tasks on your plate. What nonsense thought it is, I still can't get it. - Expect calls and text from your manager outside office hours.