Pros
Consistently hires great people for the department. Good PTO accrual and paid holidays are good (no sick time). Decent health benefits. Department leadership is good.
Cons
Department leadership is hampered by the policies from Sr mgmt. Too many unrealistic expectations for workload and deadlines. PPD always has to hire new people for the department because of burn out and lack of competitive salaries. Retention is not a focus and the company seems to be happy to be on a merry-go-round of new hires. We never get people from other companies - they let us hire them, train them, give them experience and then cherry-pick out of our ranks with recruitment by our former employees who now work with competitors. Work/life balance is a joke because we're always hiring in our department and it takes the new people several months before they can do more than rudimentary work.