Vantaggi
Steady job, pays on time, work life balance is good, some interesting work. Been able to work where you think is best for the output for the past 2.5 years during covid (no longer - see cons)
Svantaggi
Where do I start, this really is a miserable employer, I'd think twice before joining. Out of touch exec who don't seem to care about their employees and adopt a 1990s dictatorial approach. The workforce and the exec are generally at war with one another, very much a 'let them eat cake' attitude from the exec, examples include: Poor pay rises for staff (strikes due to it) inspite of the top brass walking away with lottery winning salaries and 30% increase in what they took away this year (no offer to give any of it up). 'Dictating' that employees need to be in the office a set number of days a week vs trusting them to make the decision as to where works best to be most productive and failing to acknowledge that in the global/ digital world we are now in many colleagues collaborate from different countries/ cities and arent co-located. Facilitating the departure of many good people due to the implementation of new office hubs which you need to live within 90 mins of, and the closure of their previous places of work. These hubs now reflect an out of date building strategy now that covid has shown you can achieve the same or better results working remotely however the top brass don't want to admit this hence the days a week in office dictat, got to show its working. Heavy offshoring of jobs to reduce costs, yet claiming to be a 'British institution' Loads of beauracracy, takes an age to get things done, lots of layers, hierarchical and stuffy in nature. Hard to internally move jobs to develop and barriers to doing so eg if on older more lucrative contract you'll lose out