Pros

Some opportunities to work on cutting edge technologies and learn from world class professionals.

Cons

-Low respect from management to their people. Lots of bureaucracy, politics and nonsense

-Terrible performance evaluation system. It's a relationship-to-your-manager evaluation system, not technical performance evaluation system.

-Engineers and researchers have to fight/stable each other for work. Research lab managers are not doing their jobs to find work/project for their people, but whipping them to find work themselves. If people could not find enough work to cover their time, they get low evaluation and suggest to leave.

Advice to Senior Management

Middle level managers, lab managers, should pay more attention to your researchers and engineers, not just your boss. Treat the people who do the hard work for you like human, not slavery labors.