Pros
Work environment is fun, the people were great, my team was amazing! I was able to get the hardware that made my office cubicle comfortable and easy to work out of in just a few days from requesting it. I got a double monitor setup and a laptop desktop charging dock for my brand new laptop. I was hired at an exceptional salary, because I was hired to do more than just my job, they wanted my Information Architecture skills as well. So my salary was top tier for the band that they had a requisition for. That put me at a much higher salary than just about everyone on my team, except our Senior Admin. So based on the job they hire you for, they are very compensating to match your skill sets outside of that job description. So do not be afraid to bargain based on your skills. They are open to it. My ending manager was OUTSTANDING... a big shout out to her. She really did everything she could to help me navigate the wonderful world of FMLA and working with such a devastating illness as I started to get worse. She was often frustrated at the system too. It just was not easy! But together we definitely made it work, and I got a friend out of it! Well many friends because my entire team are my friends, even today after the mass layoff.
Cons
So as part of my application process, I did disclose that I was born with Cystic Fibrosis. This is a rare disease that often requires hospitalization and/or other time-consuming treatments. When I was first hospitalized for pneumonia (we often get that), I was able to work from home for the week I was hospitalized with a doctor's note. I had had several instances aside from that too where I submitted a doctor's note to my boss. The problem arose when we discovered that my immediate boss was not submitting this information to HR. He was subsequently laid off, and the new manager went pretty much by the book of things. When HR discovered that I was being allowed to work from home due to my CF, they suspended me on a medical leave of absence; which by the way put my team down a man at a critical time for our project. This was illegal. Only a doctor can put you on a medical leave and my doctor wrote a letter that I was fully able to work as long as reasonable accommodations were made. I had to involve my legal team and as soon as I did that, they reversed the suspension and re-instated me. After that, there was a long, long road to getting to a place where they recognized that my mind and my ability to contribute to my team was NOT hindered by the fact that my physical self was not able to do certain things. This was a company that built it's products on the premise that "People can work from anywhere!" We were at the time largely pushing cloud services and accessibility. So why couldn't they have accommodated one of their own? A year later I finally got the codes in our system necessary to deem me a "work from home" employee officially, even though I already had been working from home for most of the time since the suspension. So it took years for them to work with my disability. I found that unfair since other people were happily working from home (officially too!) without having to submit to the scrutiny that I had been subjected to given that I ACTUALLY had a medical reason to be allowed this accommodation. Then the merger happened. What a complete nightmare... but this was really not CA's fault, it was our CEO's fault. We had not been meeting our numbers and our sales were dwindling, but as much as our CEO would scream that we're doing fine, that our numbers are up, so on and so forth, we never adopted to the Agile mindset he was telling us to adopt. That's the team manager's fault. Agile is about TRANSPARENCY... among other things... and our CEO was nothing like that. Everything was kept quiet and under wraps until last minute. It was like, "Hi good morning, we're being sold, have a nice day." NONE OF US saw that coming. Thousands were laid off when Broadcom acquired CA... because they only wanted two things, our customer database and our Mainframe product.