Pros
Nice infrastructure. Well constructed and well run. Good validation and compliance documentation systems.
Cons
Terrible management. Almost everyone in R&D IT had only 6 months tenure when I arrived, even the VP. It was eerie. I've never worked at a place with so few people with any tenure greater than 2 years. They didn't seem to have much respect for pharma industry experience, just protecting existing turf. It was like a ghost town that was just coming back to life. It seemed like almost everyone there was still "finding their legs". Maybe in a few years people will start to coalesce as teams, but there was little teamwork training for new people. Very few people knew where IT was really going. 11% employee layoffs followed 3 months later. IT was hit hard, and so were many senior scientists.