Pros
Healthy business - the top executives know how to run a profitable and financially-stable company. We're not in the "spend at all costs to scale" mode like many of the VC-driven tech firms in the business. We're under the same pressures but we know how to do it in a way that is right for our employees. Employee happiness - We emphasize employee happiness. We've been voted the #1 best place to work in Chicago for three consecutive years -- and it easily can be applied to all our other major hubs. The benefits and employee programs are top notch. Bonus program is fantastic and the fact that the company has a consistently healthy business makes it even better. Paid sabbaticals in the 5th year of employment, free health screenings yearly (with discounts off health premiums just for participating), stipends for health equipment and gym memberships, the company funds health savings accounts for all employees. I can go on and on. Great co-workers - from Day 1, I was welcomed like I was family, like I was already a lifer at the company. And it continues today. It makes it fun to go to work. Stability - there are 40+ people taking Sabbaticals this year. That's a lot of tenure. People want to stay.
Cons
We're in an industry that rewards boastfulness, massive spending and shady tactics that we don't do. But we'll pay for it because we don't follow the industry norms. We don't do the massive year-end parties where companies fly all employees in to one location to 'do it up.' We're not lavish in that way. We didn't raise dozens of millions in venture capital to spend so we have to be prudent and smart about how we spend our profits.