Pros
The long-term vision for the Unified Classroom is really cool, and if PowerSchool pulls it off, it will have a huge impact on K-12 education.
Cons
The culture can be pretty soul-crushing - Vista's short-term incentives don't align well with the long-term success of the company and its customers, or with the general health and wellbeing of its employees. Upper management consistently over-promises and under-delivers. When that happens, the blame always flows down the org chart, though the top of the org chart is the one thing all our failures have in common. Compensation is stingy to the point of being insulting, and sudden layoffs are frequent. (Management actually refers to each round as a "talent refresh." We're not people or employees, we're "resources.") No effort is made to retain or reward top-performing employees. Management always demands more, more, more for less, less, less, then replaces us with offshore "resources" when we burn out and quit. I don't think I've ever been more anxious day-to-day than I've been at PowerSchool.