Vantaggi
HCHD has good benefits and generally the people within the same team are good to work around. The pay is above average for some positions in IT.
Svantaggi
In IT, there is almost no room or consideration for advancement. If you want to get hired and stay in a position for life, IT is most certainly the career choice. It is generally known from both inside and outside of IT, it is the department with the least amount of career mobility. HCHD IT is an example of a good ole boy network. Friends take priority and can do no wrong. In some departments, mistakes are swept under the rug by management thereby shielding some of the more inadequate employees who continue working in positions where they are not suited. IT is an area where those with the least skills are rewarded the most. It is as if management is afraid of the more talented individuals or just does not have the capacity to know what to do with talent. One big issue is the lack of communication within IT. Groups make changes to systems and then report them only if changes have failed or users call to complain something has been changed. Some groups are completely shielded even from those within IT. It makes it very difficult for IT to run as smoothly as it should.