Vantaggi
Learn about the industry and equipment Knowledgeable coworkers Work/ life balance Benefits are good
Svantaggi
Low pay. No bonus, no raises are guaranteed each year. Promotions and more work is offered without compensation. When you ask to be paid for what you do, you are told that raises are frozen. Layoffs happen during downturns. Management is untrustworthy and greedy, they do not particularly care for the direct reports only numbers and how much work they can squeeze out of you. Some coworkers are toxic and manipulative and are actually the ones who ruin people's livelihoods during downturns. Some managers have NO business being a manager, they are absolutely incompetent at everything, and lack people skills. The only thing they do well is hire their unqualified friends that kiss up. This satisfies their egos. Tenured coworkers think they know everything and actually prevent new people from learning in order to protect themselves. The tenured ones are also the most toxic ones. They will backstab and know how to play the game. This is a dog eat dog environment. You better get in line, the tenured ones dont want to lose their cash cow.