Vantaggi
Haven't been laid off yet! Latest program has a much better culture than previous program. Competing company wants me now!
Svantaggi
See "Older Women Engineers Not Respected," posted July 7, 2016 Same story as 3 years ago... Haven't been promoted in more than 10 years. Served in progressively higher positions, but haven't received recognition or a significant increase in pay. Functional management is inexperienced and untrained. If you try to advocate for yourself, you will be accused of being "difficult" or having "behavior issues" and black marked. I work an average 20 hours overtime every week because my team is understaffed, is really young/green, requires lots of mentoring and coaching, and doesn't work any extra hours because they all make more $$ than I do or are at a higher level. When I bring this up to functional managers, they blame me and say I don't know how to manage my team. Fed up and ready to bolt even though only a few years away from drawing my early retirement pension! The company's no retaliation stance is "FAKE! FAKE!, FAKE! FAKE!" The company is plagued with sociopaths.