Pros
People make the difference. Speaking for The Colony office (Formerly PEG Bandwidth), it was the high quality people that made going into work everyday enjoyable. Close knit group of skilled people that would help you at the drop of a hat in order to get tasks completed by tight deadlines. Benefits packages were good and slightly above standard. You were empowered to make immediate decisions and adjust processes to fit a multitude of ever changing situations.
Cons
Since the buyout of PEG by CS&L, things have changed immensely. Layoffs seem to be the norm after every merger/acquisition. New management is not willing to take their time in understanding who/what are the current responsibilities before making cuts in the personnel rosters. When they do this, they face "gaps" in areas of responsibility that are left vacant........leading to increased response times for outages, installation deployment schedules, and sales engineering/requests. For the guys from Hunt and Southern Light that were just acquired, be prudent as what you just did to the Legacy PEG/Tower Cloud employees, will happen to you when CS&L (Corporate) make the next merger/acquisition.