Pros
Decent health benefits Impossible to lose your job as a dev here because the bar is set so low Nice top floor break area
Cons
- Extremely low tier employees. Basically 95% of the company is made up of customer service associates with different titles to make themselves feel more important like "Engagement Manager" and "Account Relationship Manager". 5% is made up of dev's. Almost 100% of all of these people are incompetent and lack any substantial formal education. - As a developer, you will find it extremely difficult to get a better paying job after leaving McLeod Software because you virtually leave with no gained skills and knowledge. At McLeod, you get good at writing McLeod's software - therefore your real title should be "McLeod Developer" and not "Software Dev/Engineer". McLeod's Software of 4+ million Java coding lines (I'm sure they pitched this as something they're proud of at your college fair) is almost completely devoid of any documentation. No comments in the code. It is riddled with efficiency issues that no one can fix anymore and it has 10-20+ years of code debt behind it. You gain no knowledge to be a better software developer, you are more of an IT person that debugs McLeod's constantly crashing software. - This company is entirely founded on the idea of nepotism. For my group, they gave an executive level job to the brother of a senior developer. We used to have one dev manager. Guess who they hired as the second? His best and lifelong friend. Who did we hire as our new customer service associates? Brothers, sisters, wives, and husbands. They cast out the resumes of anyone competent. It is completely unfair and unjust. It is also why the company is extremely inefficient and terrible at its core functionalities - because no one has the guts to tell their best friends and family working in the same positions beside them the right thing.
