Pros
Excellent learning environment at junior levels, with lots of responsibilities
Cons
Top Mgmt and HR paint a rosy picture of merit-based career paths and mobility. Neither of these are true, unless you spend more time playing internal politics than in helping customers. Typical scenario on a project: 2-5 junior people will do the real work, 5-10 middle managers will fight over how it should or should not be done and who should get credit or blame. Top mgmt will wait and then reward the winner of politics among middle managers Top mgmt has no vision, and no incentive to shake-up and reduce the entrenched middle management, because Gemalto remains the industry leader by default. No incentive for new entrants to challenge it due to high entry barriers and low margins. So, its a great environment for learning technical and project management skills early in your career since middle managers try to palm off everything to inexperienced staff. Stay away if you dont like to be challenged early!