Pros
It’s a job that encourages, rewards and improves rational thinking and logic. This has a reflection in all aspects of life. Being skeptical takes it to the next level when you start to deal with the Software Architecture kind of work. To work on this branch of software development is just something unbelievable. This is highly influenced by geographic and chronological location.
Cons
The nature of the work demands the ability to deal with complexity. As the projects grow in size, scale and importance this need tends to follow a logarithmic scale. Consequence of the former topic and commercial enterprise relations, a sometimes overwhelming number of fads and trends that go too far from rational thinking.