Pros
Sorry... I can't really extol any merits.
Cons
My team of 20-30 people were dissolved by our CTO spouting the now cliched "We cannot survive unless we're in Mountain View" argument. The talent is all up in Mountain View. Mountain View is a mecca of awesomeness. Mountain View has all the talent. Mountain View is a religion. The good people are in Mountain View. And so on. Unfortunately, said CTO didn't quite calculate the costs of housing in Mountain View. Or the number of Mountain View companies competing for the same talent. Or the salaries needed to attract the talent. And most of all, he failed to realize Neustar is a minor player, a coffee stain on a road map to greatness. It's a third-tier community college of tech. Neustar's business plan sucked before the relocation. It amounted to acquiring cheap start up technology and hoping for a winner. The state lottery works the same way. But after the the reborn Mountain View pilgram crap, the lotto bumped in price from $1 to $10 per ticket. Neustar's real achievements are almost 20 years old now. Little can be noted about the past 10 years. Innovation within the company is long gone. Luckily, it really did well in those early years, built up a core. That's the only reason it's still around.
