Pros
Interdisciplinary insight between software, electrical, digital, analogue design and latest MATLAB / Simulink tooling Experience of a new class of team environment Open plan office and shared break area allowed insight into wide variation of co-workers' roles and contributions Insight into strategic assets in semiconductor industry Insight into importance of IP and methods to protect it
Cons
Team too large to have rapport-building time with manager No time to collaborate on a requirements doc / list concrete desirable outcomes of research Previous work presented itself as much more complete, suggesting my project much simpler and better defined than reality, only discovered this from meeting previous engineer in my final month (need to look impressive to academic supervisors may affect ability to document informatively) Project totally unspecified before I arrived and began fixing whatever models and code were lying around from previous FPGA work