Pros
AOL is an ad supported media company and this gives one the opportunity to work in a very exciting domain - nothing ever gets stale and the pace of change is both exciting and exhilarating - keeps you fresh. Other than the domain, the company has a great respect for the employees and the work-life balance has been personally very satisfying for me. Resources needed for one to do his work have never been a problem - in fact I think that the company was on the other extreme of not having the fiscal discipline - but that is changing now and there is a lot more focus on ROI
Cons
The move from being primarily a ISP access service to being an ad supported media company has not been easy at all. Its a big ship to turn and it's taken a while - it's still turning. While the overall end game of defining who we want to be as a company has been clear, the steps taken to get the company there have not been as clearly thought out. Some of the acquisitions made have seemed to be good, but we have been slow in integrating these acquisitions to be a cohesive whole. Some of the leadrship actions come across as confused and there is a lot of ambiguity recently. The stagnant online ad market, low CPMs and low margins have not helped either.
