Pros
* Big company, with many opportunities to learn and to grow * Multi-cultural environment * Global footprint * Most of the employees are gold
Cons
* There is no actual strategy (apart from pure communication) * The financial figures are very good, but they hide the fact that this big company is sinking, much like the concert aboard the Titanic * The developers are forced to use outdated technological stacks (proprietary stacks on top of old school C++, Java 6-), maintained by too numerous business-disconnected "technologists" * The cost structure was based on monopolistic typed business model. With the new actors (eg, GAAG, Airbnb, Uber), that cost structure hinders the company to re-invent itself * A lot of small companies are acquired, but they are almost never properly integrated, leading to many overlaps and inefficiencies * The top managers are blinded by their own quest to power (and to keep it), but most of them have no vision, and their management methods rather look like FUD than leadership * Like for the strategy, while the stated culture and values sound great, they are pure communication