Vantaggi
In a rising market, this can be a great place. The corporate values are well crafted and in many places lived. There are truly amazing, caring, super-smart and dedicated people throughout the organization.
Svantaggi
To be absolutely clear, the recent elimination of temps and layoffs were for one purpose and one purpose only to appease the stock market. Study the financials and there is no reason to make such massive cuts. But that is what you get when your company is held at something above 80% by institutional investors. As a senior exec, with millions riding on the stock and these investors, you do what they allude to. (Then as was here, within a week of the cuts, the CEO staff received their "incentive" pay outs, look at the SEC reports, it is shocking). This has truly exposed the hypocrisy of senior management that speaks a good game about caring for it's employees, but really only care about their massive compensation.