J.D
Don't plan for the long term, unless you can bear to be stabbed in the back by HR.
It's a good place to start but the salary is not the best in an IT professional position. Managers are well paid as I know, but when they screw up a quarter financially, workers pay the price. In the manner of IT infrastructure, they are still not state of the art. There are some good new initiatives and forward-looking plans but workflows and processes are still too old-fashioned and slow. It is also a shame that some good jobs have ended up with contractors. Don't trust HR people; they don't know your professional skills and make all their decisions based on your personality and if your manager is weak, you are over. Worst of all, they have such an ignorant say in who should be dismissed in the event of layoff.