Vantaggi
I can honestly say that my direct manager while at this company became a true mentor of mine and profoundly impacted my career development. So, there are some cool people within the organization. But this is only a testament to the character of some individuals, not the company itself. If anything, the company impeded my manager from having a bigger influence.
Svantaggi
Very old-school management culture. Right from the start I heard about people getting pulled into offices and yelled at for minor miscommunications and failure to meet unrealistic delivery expectations. Turned out this was true, and the same happened to me a few months later. After getting acquired by IBM, things went sideways. My team spent over a year building a product while having no connection to user needs, no understanding of the purpose of our work, and no customers from whom to solicit feedback. We were haphazardly paired up with teams in other countries whenever it felt like we were "behind", which of course only lead to difficult patterns of communication and much swirl. Orders were thrown at us by an astoundingly incompetent enterprise architect who in an email described my team as "kids to be kept in line" (this gives insight to the mindset of the organization). Eventually my team and many others were simply laid off because, of course, no one was buying the useless products we were wasting time building. Naturally, none of the architects of the disaster (veteran employees and senior management) were dismissed in that wave. I would not recommend this company to anyone. Stay far away.