Vantaggi
Employment here pays the bills. For the time being there are oases of employees that are decent people who look out for each other. Interview process is disjointed and haphazard, which frequently results in the chance to have frank and open conversations with the design an engineering interviewers.
Svantaggi
Leadership talks a big talk about equity, teamwork, work life balance, DEI, etc, but are not willing to put the work in. Company was started by two former Arthur Andersen (sound familiar? think Enron) employees, one of whom makes sure to hire outside companies also founded by former Arthur Andersen employees when possible, including the current DEI advisors. Nothing says “we’re trustworthy” quite like perpetuating twenty years of nepotism. Multiple instances of workplace retaliation by leadership and HR, wage discrimination, breaches of the ADA. Leadership tries so hard to play at the level of FAANGs that new projects are underbid to the client, understaffed, and frequently involve contracts with too few boundaries and protections for designers and developers, all in the name of getting big names on the client wall. This has resulted in an increasing hemorrhage of talent over the last 3 years.