Pros
Some excellent employees positioned in various departments. Smart, helpful, hard-working people who make the office bearable. My sole regret of no longer working there is the connection I made with some of them. A good place to learn new tech skills and build experience. Free coffee, snacks & drinks.
Cons
The CEO is disorganized, and is too busy pursuing "the next big thing" to provide a cohesive vision or identity. Very poor communication between Sales and Implementation, which leads to ugly client hand-offs and unrealistic expectations, timelines & budgets. Lack of efficient planning in Development leads to over-worked developers jumping from fire to fire. The company is staying afloat due to one "big fish" client, but is too bogged down maintaining their legacy code to remain competitive for the future. Bad benefits - default flex time is 3 days over the first 6 months, or 5 days over an entire year. A workaholic culture. Several managers would tell stories about times they took client calls while on honeymoon, and even while in labor as points of pride. Extremely high turnover for a company so small (me leaving made it 10 people in 8 months). You could be working with someone in the morning, and find out they disappear in the afternoon. You get a single sentence email from management saying they're gone. No one talks about it, and colleagues are left to pick up the pieces. The company is aware they have a "glassdoor problem", which is why so many current employees have recently provided reviews. I have a good idea who wrote many of them (and I'm sure they can identify me), and I wonder if their reviews would change if they had more anonymity.
