Vantaggi
Interesting projects behind the times enough to allow you to catch on and be a relative expert on with the slightest motivation and talent. Weak IT work force allows you to look good easily Pockets of competence allow you to keep sanity. Your connections may not be on your team or in the same Geo location but there are enough people that you'll find some decent contacts for skill development and problem solving
Svantaggi
Minimal award for performance. Basically you get to keep your job. Teammates may do nothing because they know you'll bail to keep the ship afloat. Comp isn't great. Lots of favoritism and cult of personality around leaders versus technical competence. Advancement and retention more about massaging your boss' ego and selling to your superiors than making useful stuff Relentless focus to export jobs overseas or to foreign contracting IT US shell companies filled with lazy con people and massive host nationality overrepresention which hr never seems to complain about. Flagrant abuse of h1b.