Being that this company is as loyal as it is to its employees, sometimes what seems like standard business practice can be put on the back burner. The entire company isn't this way, but it seems the more senior employees are given a level of favoritism/seniority over the newer employees regardless of who is actually doing the right thing in general or specifically for the company. Not everyone seems to be kept accountable, more so the more senior people.
Some of upper management can be slow to respond and there can sometimes be a feeling that those higher ups are just figuring things out as they go. It's not all bad and a lot of things are changing with the company that seem to be slowly remedying this slowness and inexperience.
I'm on the hospitality side - I think this is more the industry as a whole or based on the local environment, but... there seems to be little regard for personal/family time. I think that's how the events industry is, especially with the higher dollar clients, but it can be easy to feel burnt out after months of 60+ hr/week.