Pros
1. Excellent team of individual contributors and superb junior and mid-level managers. 2. Solid technical skills in their market niches 3. Business with good margins and the headroom to extract more
Cons
1. Excessive focus on resourcing internal functions such as finance, accounting, and IT 2. Very little investment on the customer facing parts of the organization. Woefully understaffed in Sales, Business Development, Product management, Strategic marketing 3. Executive team disconnected from the realities faced by the rest to the organization. They either dont see or dont want to address the obvious structural and systemic problems in the organization. 4. An executive team that expects and demands heroic efforts from severely under-resourced line staff on a daily basis. 5. Metrics, incentives, and goals rarely aligned 6. Remnants of legacy silo cultures still persist resulting in unhealthy competition and even wilful sabotage across business teams