Pros
Low expectations so not hard to stand out. Salaries and benefits are very competitive. The data science grad scheme is exceptional, there is a really good stream of talent coming out of it.
Cons
LBG used to be a really good place to work but the new leadership are extremely regressive. They're insisting on mandatory office attendance quotas, no longer supporting compressed hours working patterns and generally don't seem to care about wellbeing anymore. There is now an enormous brain drain as experienced colleagues leave for better opportunities elsewhere. Their tech strategy is essentially betting the house on "leapfrogging" the competition with genAI, despite the fact that they are about 5 years into a disastrous cloud migration, which is nowhere near complete. It is so difficult to get even basic stuff done with the state of LBG's platforms currently - it is completely delusional that LBG could somehow become an industry leader in the field of AI. Restructures and redundancies happen like clockwork every few months. Even if your team is unaffected, chances are your stakeholders or supporting teams will be, so there is constant uncertainty and disruption.