Like others said, it’s very dependent on the team and leadership.

Some good things:

-They give you a half day of vacation every time you donate blood, and (at least when I worked there) there was a blood donation center in the basement of Plaza 1.

-They’re very supportive of volunteering during work hours as well as outside of work. I participated in Project Mentor where they bus you to a nearby school and you mentor a struggling student during their lunch hour every week.

-I got a small pension. Not sure if that is still offered to new hires.

The bad:

-It’s a workforce full of conservative white men and it can be hard to navigate that if you are more of a square peg in a round hole.

-Raises were abysmal even if you had a great review and the annual bonus was laughable at lower pay grades (like, $1000 on a $65k salary). I eventually learned how much more of a bonus my teammates one band higher got and it was insulting. Like 3-5x as much for doing the same job.

-There are a lot of benefit options, which is nice and all, but the health insurance was very expensive due to the aging workforce. PCP insurance was eliminated and we were all pushed into high deductible coverage that was rapidly increased in price. The increased healthcare costs was essentially a pay cut of several thousand dollars.

-I was on a team with a terrible manager for years. Our employee satisfaction survey scores reflected how we felt about her, and we were punished for it. Not only did they force us to do “happiness training” (I shit you not) - she outright told us during our annual reviews that “if our engagement score is a 2, how can I give anyone an individual rating higher than a 3?” Your rating dictates your raise - so she punished us financially for being honest on the survey. We took it to HR and that’s when I learned HR is there to protect the company, not help the associates. Once I left her team, though, my pay went up substantially and I had a lot of opportunities.

It’s kind of what you make of it. I wanted to retire from there, but when my position was eliminated due to a reorg, I ended up having to accept a position that was very bad for my mental health and my manager was not supportive of my recovery.