Vantaggi
Overall a possibility for a very positive outlook for the future. Pay for some is excellent. Decent benefits. If you know your stuff and can show data it is usually easy to get things done.
Svantaggi
Middle management is a joke. Almost no one accepts responsibility or wants to make a decision. Personnel management is left to inexperienced unqualified rookies which causes discontent. Extreme lack of career direction. Time off is based on a 40 hr work week therefore shift employees do not get enough time off to accommodate 2 weeks of sick time and they don't get paid shift differential for sick time or personal choice time. It actually costs a shift worker money to take sick time or personal choice time. This is a TERRIBLE practice. HE and management don't seem to care about the disconnect in the time off for shift workers. Engineers are inexperienced and over worked. The entire work force is punished for the mistakes of an individual rather than retraining the individual.