Pros
Good training ground with significant trade-offs in work-life balance
Cons
Toxic work culture where management keeps demanding more with less - fewer resources, less support/empathy, reduced coaching/guidance from managers etc. Everything is urgent and important with zero prioritisation. Managers talk about the 80:20 rule but fixate on the 20 from their ivory towers. Work is cascaded directly to the band 1/2 managers with most band 3s and above simply exercising their jaw muscles because they don't have technical expertise or knowledge of processes. Promotions and recognition can be entirely de-coupled from performance. Sycophancy or simply coming from the same community/state as your one-up manager can help shorten the path to promotion. Failures are not seen as opportunities for improvement, what ensues is a frenzy of finger pointing so people are fearful of even admitting to making mistakes which hampers the process of issue resolution and the implementation of long-term solutions. Needless to say, there isn't a culture of innovation. Current leadership do not role model the values of the company, I don't see an improvement to the work environment in the short term.