Vantaggi
Great name on your resume Your work will be used by many Fortune 500 companies If you are in the right team you will be developing new interesting products Good life / work balance - no laptops for developers (except for team leaders and beyond) Developers sit in offices of 2-3 people, almost always with an outside windows and not in OS. Ergonomic consultation is also provided. Some perks - free lunches, dinners. Free gym including yoga and Pilates classes Stable - no mass layoffs just to appease the stock market
Svantaggi
Too much legacy code to maintain (if you're unlucky that's all you do) Old development tools Reliance on propriety technologies instead of standard ones Compensation may be low compared to other tech companies