Pros
1. Opportunity to gain hands-on experience in dealing with the sort of issues you cannot encounter in other workplaces. 2. Pay is not bad and benefits (pension in particular) are also good. 3. Despite the constant negative press headline, it's still a good name to have on your CV. 4. If you are joining the graduate scheme or if you’re still early in your career, this is not a bad place to join overall. 5. The new infrastructure hub in London is not a bad workplace, with good amenities and facilities (much better than the patchwork of outdated offices they had in central London).
Cons
1. Highly political organization where logic and reason do not apply. 2. Extremely bureaucratic, rigid, and inefficient. 3. Many departments within Infrastructure are top-heavy and room for progression is limited. If you are senior level professional, especially in areas like HR, Compliance, Risk, Legal, etc., you will probably struggle to find opportunities to move up. 4. Management’s inability to take decisive action and the never-ending stream of negative press headline and the ensuring random restructuring, cost-cutting, etc. can be very demoralising. 5. If you stay here too long, you can become institutionalise and lose the edge required to thrive in another workplace.