Vantaggi
I joined as an A&T (admins&technicians) so my review is from that PoV. - Real responsibility from day 1 - Great learning opportunities at all levels, at all assignments. - Smart people to work with - You can peak into lot of areas - Some outstanding low and mid managers both in people management skills and in business/technical knowledge
Svantaggi
- Work/life balance is close to be non-existent - as an A&T, 'looking out of the box' is hard due to the workload in one concentrated area - starting salary below the regional average for the job, it gets better if you get your raises the way they promised (much dependent on your manager) - promotions depend too much on your immediate manager - so your salary path can become quite flat - there's a 'glass ceiling' between the managers and the A&Ts, getting promoted to manager level takes at least 5 years regardless of your talent or abilities, yet you can have a fresh graduate with zero experience and Supply Network knowledge presented as your next manager - or worse, you can get one from a completely different area with zero former experience/studies in the field of SN. SN managers are rarely promoted from within. - limited number of interesting A&T jobs to choose from for rotation - usually way understaffed, driving a tremendous number of overtime hours, uncompensated but required, which leads to big fluctuation