Pros

As a big multinational you have slightly more job security than if you worked for a smaller, more dynamic but higher risk company.

Cons

They have moved their development work to India. All "centers of excellence" are areas that pay their workers less money. The company is basically so huge that nobody really knows exactly what it going on. Statistics are used by upper management, but everyone else know what they are looking for so they make up the figures - they are normally 2 steps ahead of the management. From a customer's viewpoint, their Powerlink system, which they tout as excellent, is pathetic and most of the client base don't want to use it. It's hard to get consultancy work going, hardware support doesn't seem excellent, they have no idea how to do software development. Don't talk to me about CAS... addressing storage via a hash of the content seems to me to be HIGHLY risky!

On top of this, they not only outsourced existing work to India, they reduced everyone's salary by 5%, then immediately got into a bidding war with NetApp to puchase Data Domain.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't lie to your employees. Don't tell us that offshoring your support or development is a good idea. Your IT department is hopeless. Powerlink is terrible. Morale is low - you need to improve it somehow. How about paying people what they are worth?