Pros
- For IT jobs, the salaries are relatively competitive. - I was able to work on some market leading technology for customer loyalty applications - Generally nice people to work with (on the IT side) -- I didn't have a lot of contact with other areas
Kontras
- The health benefits were horribly cheap. High deductibles (up to $1500 per person per year with no family deductible) and after you paid that, the plans still pay only about 80%. My out of pocket medical expenses ran over $10,000 my first year there. - Ancient business applications and they seem to have at least one copy of everything, and with no cohesive plan to get out from under the crush of all the legacy software. - The trend seems to be to move everything to Phoenix (I was offered a job in Phoenix at a 10% reduction in salary, so I chose to be laid off and stay in the Bay Area). - In general, the only training I could get was if it was free.