Pros
Good people to work with if you can find them.
Cons
Company sold out to WSP. Shareholders made millions while 2/3s of the company didn't see a dime in a $1.8B acquisition. WSP attempted to give all Grade 8s $60k bonus spread over 3 years if you stick around for that time with the first payment 18 months from signing the retention agreement. Insulting amount of money for those who work hard and bought into the POWER culture for years but never made it to shareholder status (couldn't crack into the good old boys club). It's a shame really, this is the type of acquisition that makes everything more expensive downstream all the way down to our electric bills, and to think WSP (a publicly traded company from Canada with 69,000 employees) cares about the employees they just acquired it's ridiculous. They acquire companies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Their POWER acquisition is nothing special, it is just another notch in their belt.