Pros
Work life balance is true. Too True. Benefits are very good especially if you are in Cary. Great place to work if you are an admin, HR or some support function. These people run SAS as the Deep State runs the government.
Cons
If you want to get something done it is tough to get your fellow SAS people to work. Everyone is "retired in place." Analytics is the 4th hottest sector right now and SAS has zero growth. Old technology, old thinking. Open source is going to kill SAS like Linux killed Sun. It is already happening. Customers HATE SAS. Hard to deal with, expensive. Old thinking. SAS is broken down into kingdoms. You have to get approval from six Kingdoms every time you want to get something done. So the end result is, no new things ever get done. I was there for four years, in that time every new product they came out with failed. Every one. They hate salespeople. No respect for sales at all in this company. They are surprisingly open about this fact.