Pros
MO gives fantastic opportunities to individuals who not only have the drive to succeed on the projects they are working on, but also to the people who genuinely put forward the effort and work towards the company as a whole succeeding. When you succeed and produce results, you are given praise and acknowledged in front of upper management. Also, middle managerial staff and upper management communicate about individual successes and deficiencies. The middle managers bridge the gap between developers and engineers and the upper managerial staff. This provides a solid, well defined chain of command for tasking and communication. As a result of some team members & managers working remotely, the new hire is tested on their communication skills. With so many employees that work remotely, different backgrounds tend to lend to skillsets that can be useful in certain situations. There also individuals who see the bigger picture for some of our products. They can explain in such high detail the magnitude of the impacts the work we do for our contractual project obligations, has on actual customers. You can easily gain a sense of accomplishment by hearing the direct feedback of middle & upper management as they describe customer astonishment and praise at the capabilities of our products.
Cons
Employees may push back against the documented processes and veer away from the set methods for how tasks are meant to be completed. By having such diverse employee backgrounds, some ideas previously accepted at other organizations may be pushed on certain decisions that could have direct conflict with set procedures and historically relevant decisions made at MO.
