Pros
Lower than average salary but good benefits. First-line employees are usually great.
Cons
Silo work environment with its IT department run by a radical foreigner recently hired by the company to modernize the department. All he wants each week is seeing results without fully understanding the major issues around the company and most of the existing systems. When pressured by upper management, he would run around and demand immediate results from all personnel under him without any clear and reasonable plans and strategy. It's like waiting for a pie in the sky. Everything is done based on the moods of one person and things can change quickly and randomly with his mood swings. Each week there's a detailed report outlining all the projects and activities within the department, but he's either too busy or lazy to read and is always out of touch, and it shows when he starts speaking of projects that he's not quite interested in. It won't matter how hard you work and you abide by all the company rules and regulations, and you follow protocol and proper processes, but if you don't speak his kind of language, you are out. It's pretty obviously he has his own personal agenda, which is not necessary good for the well-being of the company. The management style here is managing by intimidation, and the trend seems to be replacing American employees with cheaper foreign contractors or employees.