Pros
Good benefits package, office temperature stays comfortable all year, twice a year they volunteer people to run a burgers and brats cookout, innovation is encouraged
Cons
Below-market salary, understaffed and overworked small teams, glued to the desk, unclear expectations upfront and over time, not attracting experienced external talent only interns who are thrilled to have a job to pay for their student loans, overtime is implicitly expected yet is not compensated beyond a hollow thank you, 50 hour work works more often than not, need to sift through way too many emails reporting activity from different systems to find the ones you care about, fanatical tracking of everything, reporting to a thick layer of management, often sidetracked by investigating workflow, process or production issues, testing is stressed to ensure quality assurance and yet work goes to production with known failed tests, SAP for their ERP...ever worked with SAP? That alone is worth taking a pause, overall heavy administration, excessive communication... it almost supercedes achieving real productivity leading to customer value, only one-fifth of internal innovative ideas are given any runway (i.e. company time, company funded project on the roadmap) and there is ZERO financial incentive just a demo on proof of concepts, awkwardly orchestrated social time is allocated every two weeks where managers herd people to snack areas while standing around observing everyone chit-chat it's so unnatural and staged it feels weird kinda like the Truman show but only for 30 minutes, no remote work policy (not outdated because that would mean a policy once existed, there is no official company supported remote work policy), no influence on the product development, few suggestions/ideas are considered