Pros
You will learn a ton because you will have to everything since we are building a company. The mRNA platform is truly amazing and could change the face of medicine. Lots of investment in benefits and training. Building new corp HQ.
Cons
No processes or standard practices have been created so it's a lot of admin and manual work while they work to bring the company into the 21st century. CEO is a micromanager so there is a lot of busywork to give him the details he wants, which means that there is very little time to actually build the company in the right way. Basic systems just don't work, it's kind of scary. The platform is amazing - but it's like a priceless diamond in a setting of cheap tin and paperclips - the company can't support the platform in a remotely scalable way. We have a culture of crisis management and urgency - we praise the heroes who kill themselves at the last minute to fix a crisis rather than figuring out how to avoid the crisis in the first place. We talk a lot about being bold - which is great, but boldness without maturity is chaos. We're chaos.