Pros
Used to be great place to work despite the lower pay than market average due to various perks, now it's just a desolate place to work for under average pay. Maybe if you stayed, in a few years and if it bounced back after Apollo, you could get something out of it? Decent work life balance even when other things went bad (I'd imagine this is YMMV depending on the team)
Cons
- Lower than average pay. - People with knowledge of existing systems have left so if something breaks, many people are left scratching their heads - After the acquisition, the general attitude from higher management seemed to be that employees are threats to the company's profitability. - Policy changes not communicated to employees until after they are in effect (401k matching was not paid until the end of the year, but they didn't tell us until a week or two into the year) - The company would rather let knowledgeable people go without giving them raises to put them at market average, and then hire new engineers at considerably higher wage despite them not going to be ramped up for months. - Some senior management brought in by Apollo are down right condescending. - Seems to be more worried about getting money to hire yet another C-level exec or similar than to give money to managers to allow basic cost of living adjustments to employees