Pros
The technology is interesting and performs a valuable service for the customers. The customer list is impressive, and includes many of the largest firms in the world. Revenues are growing.
Cons
The owner and CEO has precious little idea how to grow a company successfully. He has never worked in or grown a company of size. As a consequence, he micromanages everything, and often badly. Employees are treated as completely interchangeable and replaceable. They are viewed as an expense that must be minimized. There is virtually no opportunity for advancement; once you are hired, you're pretty much put into a box which is impossible to escape. Knowledge you bring and share about products and services, corporate development, process development and corporate quality will be considered irrelevant and obstructionist. The internal process for defining products revolve around satisfying the CEO's latest whim without regard to good user interface principles, good product design, quality of the released products, or the appropriate means for delivering the products. There is no cross-functional program management. There are no executive staff meetings -- the CEO will tell you what he wants you to know about what is going on in other departments. Although these statements could apply to many companies, APCON elevates them to an art form.