Pros
-Free coffee, water and soda with cheap snacks -Almost everyone is friendly and easy to talk to -Can work on different projects within the company if you request it -Interesting work most of the time -Switched to a better review process
Cons
-There are periods where the turnover is incredible, sometimes 10-20% of the company leaves without replacements. (Currently 50% the size from when it was sold) -When the founders sold the company everything shifted for the worse: work/life balance, management, benefits, compensation -Simply put people want good benefits and pay, we are no longer competitive to retain or attract good people -Sales management and sales seems to turnover semi-annually -New upper management should be brought in or current management should be trained, we have put all of our eggs in a single basket several times -At one point there was almost a 1-to-1 manager-to-engineer ratio, which was bad, but then lots of managers were let go resulting in not enough management, skipped the happy medium -No more interns, which is where most of the current staff came from (used to be 6-8 each summer but now there is 0-1)