Pros
Stable company with very diverse markets Some products are very cutting-edge technology Good mid-level management Many of their factories are in small towns where it is cheap to live, if you like living in small towns Pay is decent
Kontras
Company holds back a percentage of your pay each month for salaried employees, and based on how the company and division perform in the year, you get a payment in March. If the company exceeds their plan, you get a bigger payout. If they have a rough year, you get less or maybe not anything at all if it is really bad. But beware their trickery! This year they changed it from US & International sales to solely US sales. International was the bulk of business, so they found a way to pay their employees less. New changes to their vacation policy are also upsetting. All vacation is given at the beginning of the year and must be used by Dec 31st, or it disappears. Problem is, some years the plants will close down at Christmas so everybody saves their vacation until the end of the year. Then when end-of-the-year orders come through, everybody has to work. So either take your vacation in the summer and take leave without pay in December, or hold on to your vacation and watch it disappear in December when you're buried in work.