Pros
There are some really smart, talented, and good people working in the R&D organization.
Cons
There is a reason that no innovation has happened at the R&D center in many years. Management is a mess in the R&D organization and often impede progress because they are either inexperienced or have no clue. They keep putting the same types of people (no people skills, self serving, etc) in leadership roles and the rest of the organization suffers because of it. They don’t take accountability for their own mistakes but rather look for a scapegoat. Ratings and promotions are based on who the like not who deserves it most (they aren’t required to get feedback from others and can dictate a persons rating). They don’t really listen to employees about anything and there’s no mechanism to provide feedback to management.