Pros
Great benefits. free cable, internet, phone... 401k match, etc. seriously, the benefits are really quite good. Dress code has relaxed and while still somewhat business casual, you can now wear jeans. They are starting to encourage employees to more and more apply to other internal positions so there is more career growth for the employees. There is direction to unify and stop tool spread, while looking to use more modern technologies and drop outdated programs and tools. This is promising for any company that prides itself on its technology.
Cons
Charter is already starting to claw back on WFH. we only were allowed 2 days WFH, but they've updated it for 2022 to be 3 days "in office". take a sick day, PTO, or holiday? Now your WFH less that week or none. We also have to track every WFH day in our time tracking software and they are validating that with monitoring where you are logging into the work network. There is no trust here and they are treating us like children for a benefit that was already worse than most of the major competition in the area. Office culture is very vanilla, this is probably not a job where you are going to make a lot of friends and grow your social network outside of work. Lots of "not my problem", you'll need to complain loudly or find "your person" on key teams to get any blockers resolved. There are definitely some office politics at play, and recent re-orgs haven't all been handled very well. Some groups have leaders that are very obviously trying to build their empire. This is probably unavoidable at any large corporate company though. I would like to see more encouragement to give back to the open source community.
