Pros

The ability to work remote if necessary. The extensive benefits for an employee including 401K matching and Employee Assistance Program, and onsite health and fitness center. Many of the people I worked with as peers were intelligent and fun to work with

Cons

This company has changed dramatically over the past decade. Internally it can now be a very political environment where promotions and increases were awarded to those who bought into empire building within business units and not people doing the real work essential to the success of the company. The focus on process and metrics is only effctive when everyone either agrees or is aware of the metric targets, without that it seems like evaluations are subjective and unfair. Anyone who had been managed out due to restructure is more likely to have been targeted for being more of a thinker than the management wants.

Advice to Senior Management

Clearly communicating and appropriately weighing the elements of the role for which people are being evaluated is key in not only being successful but in motivating and improving your workers. The Executive level ofmanagement is great, but the intermediate levels of management are not leading the rank and file, they are managing though fear and intimidation and taking advantage of the current economy and the fact that no one wants to be out of work right now. I am a bug fan of John chambers and his vision, but I beleive that lower levels of management are undermining that ideal.