Pros
The comradery formed with fellow co-workers, a bond formed when many people suffer together.
Cons
The CEO/founder is delusional, egotistical, dishonest and likely the cruelest boss I've ever encountered. He routinely made employees cry. One senior woman suffered the death of a close relative and was so fearful of the CEO she did not ask permission to attend the funeral. A week later he condemned her for letting her mind slip and not be more focused on work. In a 'leadership' meeting which he instituted for all seniors, he instructed us that the best way to lead was to treat our juniors as dogs, that like dogs, they just be put on a leash and told what to do. He filled his staff with Yes Men too insecure to tell him no, and young foreigners desperate for money. He was an image, thinking himself the next Steve Jobs, and the numbers reflecting the products' success were largely made up, which investors fell for. Quite simply the product did not work. Instead of being online independent, a digital product, it was almost entirely reliant on cold calls by a frightened sales staff. Instead of fixing the product, we wasted time following the panicked orders of the CEO driven by tyrannical outbursts everytime the stock dipped 1/2 a point. This is a disastrous place to work, sadly because of a single man.