Avantages
The QA team was fantastic. My direct manager was wonderful and cared about work/life balance and advocating for the team. The QA team likes to hire on proven skill versus a good-looking resume which I think is wonderful. They will take a chance on people with smaller resumes.
Inconvénients
Certain directors were very nasty people and cared much more about marking a task as 'complete' versus actually delivering a quality product. Individuals who continually dropped the ball, had no work ethic, made the entire team suffer because of their lack of work ethic were never let go or dealt with in any way. These behaviors were very much tolerated. Senior developers could speak to team members in the most cruel ways and not have any repercussions.