Pros
They feed you, and while the health insurance exists, I never used it as my wife, a call center emoloyee, had better insurance.
Cons
HALIGHT is good if you're looking to break into DevOps, although I experienced a great deal of institutional and corporocultural barriers that prevented me from advocating as an agent of change. Perhaps somebody else is a better fit; if you consider Gene Kim to be the best authority on DevOps and The Phoenix and Unicorn Projects to be your Bible, you likely won't fit in here; none of the lessons these books taught were accepted by HALIGHT. Execution of technology-basis executive goals are owned by one single person, who has been there for over a decade. This person has very limited experience operating enterprise-scale systems. Release engineers, if you have experience in Agile transformations, you should know the antipattern this represents, and the ramifications are very readily apparent. And let me be clear - there is no interest in addressing this antipattern, even though the incapacitation of this person would likely stall development for several weeks. As a result of the antipattern described in the preceding paragraph, ideas counter to the status quo are often rejected. Engineers whom are particularly adept at navigating political challenges may be well suited. As "adept" is subjective, I will state my best attempt was bringing in a bunch of my Gene Kim books, and loaning them out to whoever I could generate an interest; one product owner borrowed The Phoenix Project, but it sat unread on his desk for two months. I was otherwise unsuccessful in directly engaging with any person in my management chain; none of them had any experience with DevOps before and thus treated my "contrarian" ideas (such as "Build Cattle, not Pets," and basic adoption of Docker, Ansible and Terraform, which are used by the rest of the world) as completely insane. Another contributor described a hardworking specialist consistently receiving the blame for a liked person's mistakes; this happens very frequently, and has a suspicious amount of familiarity making me suspect it was somebody who witnessed what I experienced.....