Pros
- Opportunity to work with modern tech - Great compensation, including stock options and employee purchase programs - Great work/life balance - Ownership of solutions is possible in some groups - Ability to influence tech used to deliver solutions - Separate Managerial and Technical career tracks
Kontras
- Mid-level VPs have bought into out-sourcing critical technical work; causing technical debt, mass exodus of quality engineers and low overall morale in IT and Engineering organizations - Overseas outsourced resources are a revolving door of talent: one month you'll have quality people and the next month they are gone and replaced by new (and ignorant) replacements that need to be trained - Not all groups are the same. Some groups have horrible managers or horrible peers; others are great - Ability to move teams/groups within Comcast varies from manager to manager; some are vindictive individuals and others are supportive - VPs rarely take responsibility for their actions. Directors, too, are slippery. Consequences for poorly executed or poorly contrived initiatives frequently fall onto the backs of engineers and low level managers.