Pros
Working in a large organization where a lot of things are 'defined'. Worldwide seen as a big player, but in the Netherlands seen as a supplier of labor. (in dutch: Uitzendbureau)
Cons
The whole company is managed like a 'franchise', which means every 'department' has a different culture and mindset. Every Manager (director and VP's alike) have a set of KPI's they have to achieve, how they achieve it is not very important. Which means the development of the employees and their wishes are easy to overlook.* If you have a great management team: great! Stick with the company! But beware if your manager leaves the company, and the replacement has different values, and has great understanding of the business and manipulating his/her numbers. The function of a DCS is a jack of all trades (sheep with 6 legs), the DCS (=teammanager) turnover is pretty big. I've had 5 of them in 7 years. * KPI's: Shareholder first, Shareholder second, customer somewhere along the line and member last. Initial wages are ok; but 1 to 2% increase every year when there is an inflation hike is definetely not ok. The Pension is amazingly non-existant, they have a very high "AOW-Franchise" which means they calculate your pension under the impression you will get an 'AOW' of 5 times higher then factual.