Pros
Good health benefits Separate room for many employees. You will never fell lonely or boredom, there will be enough work to keep you busy.
Cons
High degree of micro management. You are expected to log every hour of your week in a excel sheet which will be reviewed by your Team Lead. You have to work a minimum of 50 hours/week, (including new year/thanks giving weeks), if you go below that, you can expect taunting comments from your Team Lead. Your hard work will never be appreciated, even if you work for 60+ hours, you will not be appreciated a bit. But if you make a single mistake, you will be held accountable in every possible way. Most development is done in Mumps and VB6, you will be outdated in the job market if you work here for a couple of years. Coding in Mumps is a nightmare, things will break in places that you don't expect . Only if you are good at assembly style programming, you will like this language. Work will creep in to your weekends and holidays. It was not unusual for me to receive mails over the weekend/late hours to finish some work. You have to commute to office even if there is a blizzard(yes it happens more than twice a year in Madison). Most companies will emphasize to work from home on such situations. The company doesn't really care about your personal life and no body ever will bother about your workload/stress/problems. Your team lead is there to assign you work and more work period. The beautiful building/campus is built with only one thing in mind, to impress the clients It is even more difficult to get out of the company for three reasons. - You cannot work in health care for a year. - You can't find time to give telephonic interviews. Taking half hour break in a typical work day is difficult, you have to inform your Team Lead and a couple of others for that. - Your Mumps/VB6 experience are worthless and any company would think twice before even considering your resume.
