Pros
Hard to find any. Little vertical management communication. Managers too busy reacting to fight seemingly unending fires to even consider effective leadership. No emphasis whatsoever upon leading or team building. No vision. No mission. A resource-gutted organization adrift with few left having any interest in taking responsibility and no drive for results.
Kontras
In case you are perhaps not informed, MetLife is relocating all data processing information technology personnel (primarily from the North East) to the Research Triangle area (Raleigh and surrounds) in NC. All previous telecommuting arrangements are being effectively entirely cancelled, and more disgustingly, non-management employees are being required to re-apply for their existing jobs at what they are being told by management in advance will be "regionally adjusted" (meaning lowered) salaries generally ranging from 15-25% lower. This treatment from the company that so highly "values their employees," that brings you Charlie Brown and Snoopy, and that also brings you the blimp (not coincidentally also filled with a considerable amount of hot air). Their IT environment is ever increasingly in disarray as qualified and experienced employees (many with decades of dedicated service to MetLife) head for the exit and are replaced with (most certainly less expensive) far less to entirely inexperienced youngsters still wearing their (local) college graduation gowns for their security badge photos. We do understand the tremendous pressure MetLife is under to hire people for the newly created local jobs in NC, however, since those tremendous amounts of state subsidies are, of course, based entirely upon MetLife meeting their very public hiring quota promises to the NC state government.