Vantaggi
They put me through the program so I could find a better job elsewhere. There were some very nice, smart people to balance the experience I suffered in the lab.
Svantaggi
Too many workplace trolls; too understaffed in key money-making departments; if you ever call in sick you are shamed by martyrs; daily insults to intelligence by management and the "core" techs who had never been certified or even through any school; tattling to the bosses instead of emailing respectfully; the lab experience was like working in a jungle where the monkeys are all screaming and stabbing you in the back; sub-par, old, rickety equipment, and sometimes you are not even informed that it is broken when you train on it; religious and ethnic bashing and trolling daily; techs sabotage your equipment and make fun of you relentlessly and laugh about being mean; techs do not keep honest track of their own errors but shame you for yours. I honestly do not know why I stayed so long except for the nice people there.