If you're in the gang, you're golden.
Cons: people playing politics, not caring about the end customer.
However, if you're not in the gang, be cautious of who you socialize with, how you do your job and who gets upset at you showing them up. I was on a contract we weren't the prime on. The prime contract team lead was pretty good buddies with my project director, and since I was good ad my job, made the prime lead look bad... He talked trash about me
– more... to my project director. When the contract ended, I didn't even get a goodbye handshake, much less offers for help finding other jobs (which the rest of the team did). – less