Pros
India's largest Public Enterprise, a Maharatna Company. Job security. Wonderful learning experience (in Refineries division).
Cons
It's three companies in one: Refineries Division, Pipelines Division and Marketing Division. Postings to any one of these divisions are not given to the new recruits based on their academic background. Specially, fresh Engineers who want to put their learning to practice, and gain expertise, will be thoroughly disappointed in Marketing Division, where they may be posted without anyone asking for their choice. The HR policies, therefore are very incoherent, although they keep getting awards for best HR Practices. The general assumption that government employees are lethargic, becomes true, at least in Marketing Division. An employee for more than a year is yet to get an Identity Card - I guess that sums it up.