Pros
If you find yourself in a group with or led by employees who have been there since the early years there is reason and fairness in leadership style. The stock options packages are fair and paying all of the heath insurance cost is a great benefit.
Cons
There has been a rapid influx of new hires at the director level and above. These people don’t do any actual work but come in and yell at everyone and tell them everything they have been doing up until now is wrong. The worst is the chief development officer. She has never once presented a solution to a problem and refuses to hire at the lower levels where people are actually doing the work. Instead she just wants to hire her friends from other companies who have NO IDEA how anything in the company actually works therefore they are essentially a bunch of useless high paid brown nosers. They will do anything she says regardless of if it will actually help the company or not. And don’t even get me started on how out of touch the CEO and president of R&D are. They only care about money and don’t care how they get there. They are making terrible business decisions such as delaying electronic batch records because they are not going with the best product out there and instead trying to avoid a vendor over political reasons. Now the whole company has to suffer so they don’t hurt an executives ego. Dry your tears worn the hundreds of thousands of dollars you are paid and get over it.