Vantaggi
There are a lot of opportunities to move around and advance your career since it is so large. They are the largest engineered pump company in the world, so there is an extremely large install base - particularly in the US. No need for any cold calling or finding new customers. Can get a good salary since they heavily rely on the O&G industry, however that is a double edge sword. Once you are in for a couple years, it is pretty easy to just ride along and keep employment.
Svantaggi
Seems every move they make is dictated by how it will affect the wall street opinion/stock price. Not innovative or responsive to new business ideas in any way. While there are opportunities to advance your career to a "mid-management" level pretty easily, you will hit a glass ceiling pretty quick unless you are ingrained in the old boys network. Nearly impossible to get a decent salary increase (above 2%) unless you take a new job and/or relocate. Company is EXTREMELY top heavy - i.e. directors reporting to directors?? Constantly push for very aggressive growth but make no advancements/expansions in the support structure (manufacturing and service facilities). In lieu of expanding report structure or hiring more worker bees, the move is to hire a new director or VP? For instance in Q1 15, they instituted a hiring freeze however ~6 new VPs or director level positions were instituted during this same time. On the flip side, HR makes it extremely difficult to fire people even though they are very poor performers. They want to be inline with Fortune 500 companies, so they instituted an annual review process with bell curve metrics. EVERY manager is required to put their reports into the shape of the bell curve even though their performance isn't reflective of the curve shape - i.e. you must have X% below a met expectations standard so our curve shape looks like other Fortune 500 companies. Tons of red tape to get approval on projects - one time a project needed 17 approvals before it could go to the customer and the project value was ~$1MM. Just a huge conglomerate that can't get out of its own way.
