Prós
Lab and general support teams are awesome!!! Lab facilities and Seminars are great. Excellent links to other research institutes. Some research teams are really helpful. Can get some really good short term experience, if your willing to be thrown in at the deep-end.
Contras
Top-down management structure. Attempting to be corporate, but not knowing how to do so! Experienced staff have left, replaced with vocal, opinionated new hires - expected to do-as-they-say. Very toxic and manipulative, will always shift blame to someone else. No opportunities for personal growth/development. No investment in training, yet you're expected to know/do everything asked of you. Non-existent informatics support, rely on the goodwill from other researchers and learn to support yourself/self-service! Terrible public transport and extortionate parking charges!! Little work-life balance (unless you're a student), WFH is discouraged.