Pros
- Great pay, great benefits, great global & cultural exposure - Great executive leadership that are truly trying to do the right thing - A lot of really great people (intelligent, personable, etc) - Great non-promotional career development opportunities if you are self-driven - Ability to land a position insisting on more experience than you might have; as long as you are a quick learner, have great people skills, and are a good cultural fit into the team dynamic - they'll take a chance on you.
Cons
- Holy POLITICS batman! Too many high level Directors with little to no knowledge of the business they are in charge of - busy managing up and neglect actually being good managers. - I haven't had a good boss yet. Every manager has been primarily self-interested and focused on promotion with absolutely no focus on the best interest of their employees career development. - Terrible talent management. I've referred 5 of of the smartest people I know to open positions with no response from HR. Lots of missed opportunities; usually results in a high-level manager bringing in his/her buddies from a past company. - Once again, POLITICS. It may be the nature of a company this size, but I have never seen more grown men in high-level positions act like such children.