Ineffective senior leadership, lots of fear and scapegoating
Pros
The people are brilliant, dedicated and very focused on finding ways to "do good," even though they have to work around mysteriously midguided management directives and a secret, closed door work environment. The setting for the HQ offices is beautiful and a great place to work, in spite of teams being located in a crazy patchwork of (mostly vacant) cubes and offices, spread between several buildings and floors. The layoffs--frequent, and secret until that proverbial other shoe drops--are well-administered.
Cons
Senior "leaders" do not have creative or software design backgrounds. Rather, they are excellent bean counters. Whenever an executive feels fearful that the judgement microscope might focus on them, the beans get tossed out of the bean jar, rearranged (and many elimated, seemingly at random), counted ad nauseum and then shoved back into the jar with a mandate to succeed--or else. There is a strong scent of fear in the air at Deltek at all times. Decisions are made, based on immediate job security impact, rather than on far-sighted, strategic planning. The teams operate as extremely divisioned silo organizations, with no collaboration, no communication and zero merging of minds. If this resulted in simple mistrust, it would be a step up. Instead, it results in a total lack of continuity or consistent forward momentum.