Pros

The current job market' mobility is very limited. If you have a real job outside, you might not want to work with LB. Following by the bankruptcy of LB, certain employees are asked to stay with LB and worked for the liquidation. Initially it said the whole bankruptcy process will take 5-10 years - Now the forecast had changed to 2 years aggressively. Good thing about working for LB in these days are all employees are on contractual basis - so for your contract period, you do not need to worry you would lose your income. If you can survive throughout the bankruptcy process, you might be able to transit to the new company while LB exited from bankruptcy.

Cons

Now LB is called as a bankrupt company. This is just a job - no future prospect. Depends on your work ethics, you might still have to work very hard but you no longer receive "performance-based" compensation. Everything is said on the contract and the majority of people shared the same terms. Lot of broken process, lot of knowledgable people left the firm and many people tried to figure out the missing process and its rationale. There are also the people from the so-called "administrator". They do not have best talents working in lehman. Some people don't even understand the investment broker-dealer terms and have literally no and light working experience in financial service industry. These people added lot of works to lehman legacy employees as Lehman legacy employees have to do FAQ for them all the time - repeatively.

Advice to Senior Management

Lehman legacy senior managment do not communicate with the lehman legacy employees anymore. The firm is run by Alvarez & Marsal.