Vantaggi
Salary and benefits are great and the vast majority of colleagues are nice people and great at their jobs.
Svantaggi
Reliance on acquisitions and organizational instability perpetuate poor R&D productivity. Nepotism and upward management and politics drive poor decision-making. Too many people with shallow knowledge of project specifics involved in decision making. OWN-IT cultural initiative borders on Thought Police at times - lip-service in public, but I have never had a private conversation with any colleague who thought it was useful for every single colleague to spend a day away from work at a stage-managed OWN-IT day. Like all big companies, prioritization of portfolio is a preoccupation, fear of investing in the wrong thing and burdensome governance slow down the process, damaging competitive edge and requiring in-licensing to fuel portfolio, often not scrutinized thoroughly enough. Deals done for the wrong reasons, (especially to meet annual goals).