Pros
Trauma bonding for life I guess? They usually pay salaries mostly on time
Cons
The only reason this company has not hit the wall yet is that until a few years ago, this used to be a great place to work at, fueled by ZIRP growth, carried by a lot of high-caliber ICs and a visionary CEO (who has since exited) that was a very talented deal-maker. In the meantime, a PE fund has become majority shareholder, an entire caste of clueless, toxic middle and upper managers have been introduced, many of them coming from a handful of source companies, recruiting from their networks to solidify their empires. This leadership got the mandate to attempt multiple "pivots" in strategy in order to achieve "exit readiness", which have led to yearly, brutal waves of lay-offs, quarterly changes in direction and half-baked features and products being churned out. Most of the high-performing sales organization was laid off and replaced by two dozen cheaper reps that have failed completely to deliver on the phantasy targets that were imposed on them. Acquisitions were done without ever bothering to actually integrate teams or products of those acquired companies properly, and everything got left in a half-broken state and as scattered political empires. Newhires are mandated to leave a Glassdoor review after their first month, managers have recently been instructed to leave positive reviews, and it seems like the most recent positive reviews are entirely fake.