Pros
- Work is very easy - Free coffee - Flexible hours
Cons
- There is a culture of fear and suspicion towards any kind of new technology. (Upgrades to Windows 7 started to happen in 2014, Visual Studio 2010 is considered a cutting edge IDE, etc.) - Training of employees is non-existent. If you are planning to retire in the next few years, this is great because you don't need to learn anything new ever. If you are in the early or middle part of your career working at Thales will hurt your ability to grow. - While the work is extremely simplistic/easy, you will be flooded with large amounts of it. - The IT department is beyond incompetent. They regularly do things like disable all the build computers in the company (causing weeks of man hour losses each day), randomly uninstall libraries and essential files from test computers causing issues that you must then debug, and have been known to disable internet access to the whole company for weeks at a time for no valid reason. - Flexible hours are great, but if you choose to come in to the office early in the morning and leave earlier on during the day, expect your performance reviews to be poor, regardless of your actual performance. - Computer hardware is often barely adequate to perform the tasks you're given.
