Pros
If unpaid overtime, voluntary weekend work, regular leave request denial and spontaneous unexplained redundancies for long-term employees is your thing - look no further! The fellow employees are great, nice and friendly and we felt we were having a good time... but maybe there was an element of Stockholm Syndrome and, upon reflection, maybe we were afraid to see if there was anything else out there?! The tech is cool and the problems to solve present intellectually challenging design problems. Health insurance for all the workplace injuries, mainly due to lunchtime sports. Beers and BBQs on Fridays were great.
Cons
Christmas is cancelled being a yearly occurrence. No leave allowed in run up to Christmas, starting in August. Unpaid overtime being the norm such that management assume it is taken into account in project planning. No time in lieu policy. Strong advice from management to come in for voluntary weekend work or risk not being put forward for future opportunities. 24h notice for redundancies of long term employees - no consultation period or option of taking voluntary redundancy. No clear medium-long plan visible to employees, all held secret in upper management.