Career advancement is challenging. The teams in IT/IS are fairly flat so unless someone leaves it can be challenging to grow or advance. Annual pay increases are minimal at best and don't cover inflation at least post-COVID. In terms of software engineering, most of Pyrotek's tech stack is early 2000s with quite a bit of the mission-critical stuff circa 1990s. Very, very isolated pockets of less obsolete technology. The technical debt is quite significant. Change comes (if ever) very, very slowly.