Pros
very strong brand image immense pool of resources knowledge present is stunning, you get to work with world class people strong sense of ethics within the company international presence very high potential for development capable management strong focus on Health and Safety you get to travel a lot good compensation
Cons
Fiercest competition is often coming from another SG business unit (causing loss of profit). Tone between certain BU's often resembles the Cold War, because of stuff that happened years ago. Not professional. Expect a lot of Bureaucracy, the company is very slow to change. Yet, they manage to be very unorganized / uncoordinated in other areas. (resulting in waste of resources) Finance controls the company to the extreme and is sometimes overbearing: you can spend more time on doing reports and working around budget cuts than doing the job you were hired for. The strong ethos and / or politics prevent natural selection of people that do not fit in their job role. Guys that have lost several multi-million projects all on their own even get promoted... IT (Software and policy, not the hardware) is very much outdated as well as fragmented and gets in the way of an efficient workflow. Bad work-life balance (due to personnel budget cuts), 12-14 hours a day for weeks on end sometimes are still not sufficient to get your work done.