Vantaggi
They attracted the most intellegent people in the industry so it's a great learning experience to work with them. The very prudent culture is what investment industry preferred as conservativeness is a practical and the proven best way to protect investors.
Svantaggi
we have many resources. but since technology is outdated, projects commonly run slower than ppl expected. Everyone seems to be occupied to their very granular responsibilites and the culture do not motivate innovative thinking. The year end review involves 360 review, which asks (too) many colleagues to evaluate ppl they don't even familiar with. as you expected, the review process raced to become a popularity test and that disadvantaged many tech oriented ppl who is not very social.