Pros
-Flexible hours.
-Co-workers are nice.
-Payment is usually prompt.
-Products are fun and exciting to design.
-Small company = lots of contribution.
Cons
-Small company = lots of egos to butt heads with.
-When I worked freelance, there were 17 permanent employees, ten of which were managers.
-Not willing to pay for market research.
-Starting pay was just over half of industry starting pay rate.
-Lots of "can't" and very little "can do."
-Insist on picking the lamest possible names for their products.
-Will have ten hours of meetings with nothing accomplished, then just go with whatever upper management wants regardless of market research.
-Have been trying to acquire new offices for two years, but still in the same shared office with another company.
-Licenses near-useless technology, then criticize consultants for not being able to think up markets for it.
-As for their robots: call them "legs" all you want, Bossa Nova. They're just wheels.