Vantaggi
Financial stability, used to offer old-school pension, available at age 55, but no more.
Svantaggi
Rapidly transforming to bring in lower educated and lower experienced entry level management, but while all the compensation is much lower than 10 years ago, the job expectations are literally the same as they had been for someone who was breaking their back to earn the reward of a pension at age 55, but you don't get that now. Turnover is dramatically up in all departments because the brutal work and unreachable metrics are just not worth it when compared to the frugal compensation. During my many, many years there, the career planning process was strictly a paper game . They lead you on with a "co-planning" process with your manager and director, but after I received more than 10 assignment changes over the years, not one was one of the "planned" advancement opportunities. Put another way, you tell your boss how you would like to advance, and work hard to get advanced in that direction, and they just move you laterally whenever they want. You want to be a Director of Marketing? Start out in Sales, and then, five years later you are working nights supervising part-time employees in a warehouse.