Pros
They have money and your job is not secure so negotiate aggressively. Ability to work from home when needed.
Cons
Weak and/or emotional senior leadership is unable to manage concurrent priorities and thrashes the organization from one emergency to the next. Inability to coordinate and prioritize needs across departments guarantees constant discovery of unplanned emergencies. Pervasive and ingrained culture of 'work harder (not smarter)' translates to a culture of continual OT and weekend work. In the last 18 months my staff have worked essentially every weekend. Institutionalized system of squelching staff performance ratings prevents realistic career recognition and meaningful career paths. Employees treated as interchangeable Mc-units. Employees are asked to give up approved PTO to work OT on a promise that the time will be given back... then they're laid off without receiving the time or compensation. Senior leadership says whatever is required with an 'end justifies the means' mentality and feels no obligation to it's workers. Senior management has next to zero understanding of Software Development and continually generates technical debt and employs haphazard and inefficient methodologies. As a result, software technology here is in an advanced state of decay and extraordinary events are required to move software forward. This is a company that will let go of their domestic tech workforce and restaff it in India to shift how it's financial numbers look for investors... at your expense.
