Vantaggi
Job Security - if you keep your head down
Svantaggi
There is no meaningful advancement here if you are ambitious. Talented people are pigeonholed into jobs which are beneath their abilities - and are forced to report to people who have inferior skills and knowledge. Top management roles are given to politicians and yes-men; who have think they know more than they really do. The person who France appointed as "CEO" of the US antivibration divisions is a big-mouth, condescending, narcissist - an accountant who fancies himself as a business "guru" but is an adolescent "wannabe." He used to show up in management meetings with his laptop - which had stickers all over it like "Navy Seal," and "Special Forces" nonsense - when in fact he was French and never served in any military. Having actually been a REAL Navy veteran myself - I wanted to shove that computer so far up that phony's behind - he'd need surgery to get it out. The guy was a joke and it remains a mystery how a child like that could have been appointed to such a high position. Six months after I left I was asked to return to the company -- I declined.