I work for said ABC financial firm... Pluses... -Only real MAJOR PLUS is I work remotely. This is huge and in the company I got acquired from would be unheard

I work for said ABC financial firm... Pluses... -Only real MAJOR PLUS is I work remotely. This is huge and in the company I got acquired from would be unheard of and still is in most corporations. Unfortunately they are trying to get rid of this and nobody joining now is supposed to be allowed to do it. Negatives... -Try to get anything done - 6 weeks. Want a VM? No joke - took us over 6 months. 5 minutes of works = 3 weeks of paperwork. It's basically a small government full of red-tape. Maybe this is just a big company thing, but even in my acquired financial firm we got stuff done in a reasonable amount of time. -You could get tapped on the shoulder at any moment and given your walking papers. There is no logic and no loyalty. It's all about money, money, money. CEO gets 11% bonus, workers are lucky to get anything. There must be like 50 levels of management. There seems to be more management than people actually doing things and they all need to justify their positions. -It ain't cool code at all, but that's what side projects at home are for. Salary... -Since I work remotely it's hard to judge. If I lived in San Fran, I would be homeless on this salary. For the area I'm in, I scrape by. I will say it's a little more than a lot of dev jobs around here though. Salaries were REALLY hit hard around here and never recovered. -Bonuses and Cost of Living are not dependent upon your work quality but a lot more political, who your manager is and if what you got to work on got noticed by any bigwigs. You basically get nothing in comparison to cost of living around the country. Maybe $50 a pay check. -Healthcare - Blows. Ever since Obamacare, we pay MUCH more and basically aren't covered for much of anything for the first x $1000 ...But, given were I live and the salaries being offered I'm sticking it out, as long as I can continue working remotely and saving on gas expenses and commute time.