Pros
The people are friendly, the environment is inclusive, office areas are up graded. There is plenty of technical work. The cash balance plan is great to have. The employee stock purchase plan is great. Parental leave is great. Work life balance is great. Continuous education support.
Cons
As I have recently learned the salary is low. Engineering leadership is on the decline; more leadership good at box checking than being an engineer. As many places are CMI relies on relationships to get the next promotion. Instead of increasing salary they keep adding benefits you don't need. They hire to fire; layoffs every 4ish years like clockwork. Growth opportunities exist when new employees and for certain individuals when more experienced. Now they are taking volunteers to leave; business is good but we need you to leave please. They are hiring a lot of external executives to lead and it is changing the mood and feel and lower level hiring. I think these individuals are just trying to capitalize off the current environment and don't really care about CMI; they seem so fake.