Pros
Offers more competitive salary than other ministries/ statutory boards. Decent bonus - minimum 3 months (for average performer) and can go as high as 5 months. Regular salary reviews (once a year) and they are either in percentage increment or one time bonus. "Iron rice bowl" - the organisation finds it very difficult to dismiss an employee. Non profit organisation - minimal stress, and very good work life balance where employees can easily take leave.
Cons
No career progression (you are stuck with the same job title for years). Difficult to be promoted as the managers/ senior managers tend to work for 10-20 years. The company culture values personnel who work for long and based on their loyalty instead of job performance. Many of the higher management are uniform personnel and their position cannot be fulfilled by non-uniformed personnel (eg. DXO). Due to the presence of two types of personnel (uniformed and non uniformed), there is unbalanced focus more towards the uniformed ones. Supervisors who are uniformed personnel do not understand the HR benefits or promotion criteria for the non uniformed personnel. Skills acquired from the job are not transferrable and definitely made it difficult to go to private sector in the future.