It does not get better, they do not care.
Pros
Great experience and exposure with higher ups in the company. You will have the opportunity to learn every single aspect of the business. You can move up quick, if you are willing to.
Cons
1. People high up in the company are detached from the reality since they are hundreds of miles away. No one asks anyone on-site if a change in the operation would work, they just do it. And if it fails, it will always be pinned on you and your team. You didn't do this right, you failed to do ABC, etc. Even though it was known that this new process would fail, but you have to do it because if you don't then you are disobeying direct orders. 2. For the amount of work you have to do and stress the money is not worth it. You make decent money only because of the OT, and even then it is not good at all. Half of the hourly's below you will make either the same amount as you if not more which makes the job very discouraging. They compensate you in other ways with a lease program which is nice and all, but cash is king for a reason. 3. What you make the day you start will be what you make for years, do not expect a raise, they will not give you one. You can ask for one, but all you will get is some ridiculous answer that has nothing to do with you. I started 5 years ago and am still making the same amount today. 4. Horrendous work-life balance. You will work 10-12 hours a day, 13-14 days straight, have 1 day off, and then the cycle repeats. Higher ups know this, and "understand" how absurdly high the amount of work is, but they simply do not care and will not help fix it. For example, the building I work at is supposed to be staffed with 5 supervisors. In the 5 years I have been there, there has never been more than 3 supervisors. The company has seen that they can run with 3 and since they can "get by" with that small staff, they will. 5. The days are absolute chaos all the time, and it feels like you are constantly running, you are always operating at 120%. There are some days you will not even be able to use the bathroom, you are always glued to the floor. Lunch? I cannot even remember the last time I was able to have a lunch that lasted longer than 15 minutes. 6. You are always on call 24/7 365. It does not matter if you are at home on the weekend, or out of state on vacation. You better bring your laptop, because you will get called and asked to help with something whether it be reports, data collection, operations, etc. "Time off" does not exist. 7. It is a very discouraging job, the company asks for more more! more!! It feels like no matter what you do it is never good enough. You will never ever be told "good job" for delivering what your target was. Now if you do not deliver, be prepared, they will tear you a new one and they do not care in front of who. You will get ripped in front of co-workers, hourly, higher managers, everyone. No matter what, it will not be good enough. 8. The bonuses are an absolute joke. It is a 3 colored system based on low/med./high and this data is supposed to represent as a "bell curve", so 85% of the people will score in the medium range. So essentially you are almost always guaranteed to be in the medium range, regardless of performance. To add, the amount of money always changes, you can score as a medium and make more money than the year before when you scored high. 9. Promotion opportunities are abundant, but come with conditions. You will only get offered the jobs in the buildings that higher-ups want you to be in. So if you are looking to move to a specific area and they do not want you there, then you will not get the job. If you do not want to go where they want you to, that is fine, but you will never be offered another opportunity anywhere else. You might as well just leave the company at that point.