Pros
- 20% discount in stores - You'll get lots of experience on how traditional big companies work. M&S being a century old company, there are a lot of lessons to be learnt.
Cons
As of Autumn 2016, don't touch this company with a 10 feet pole. M&S realised they were falling behind around 5 years ago and decided to make a massive investment in digital, which drew a lot of talented people and made it an OK place to work as a software engineer. However, M&S as a whole has continued to underperform and the new CEO has embarked into a massive operation to cut costs everywhere: Old employees have been bullied to accept worse pension plans, hundreds of people have been made redundant, new IT projects are exclusively being contracted in India and all engineering roles have been moved far from the city centre. The chaos that has ensued is of spectacular proportions and leadership have made it worse with every attempt to mitigate the damage. Mass resignations have followed with whole engineering teams disappearing in a matter of weeks, leaving behind a large trail of projects and products nobody knows how to maintain and junior people who don't know who they report to anymore because everyone technical between them and the CTO has gone.
