Pros
Used to be amazing with a great reputation in the industry (after all that's why we joined), but now this company is like a lost dog wandering the streets looking for scraps with no idea of where it should be going, and everyone watching on both inside and out knows it. The people here are what makes this place work and that's what keeps you there, but after the fun, you start to actually want to do something meaningful and that's where it all starts going wrong. Socializing here is pretty much the highlight of the company, but of late even that felt forced, like a desperate attempt to play happy families and cling on to the past. Bahamas for the holiday party, or did that get promised and cancelled, again?
Cons
Unfortunately, this is the easy bit. With revenue dwindling every year for the last 3 or more years (I hear the company is now 50% of the revenue it did back then), options are always limited for this company. Layoffs are now the norm with two rounds this year so far, and of course at each one you get told this is the last time, cost savings are everywhere they can, except the senior management team seem to spend their lives flying to New York, as they desperately try and get back to the black. I wouldn't be surprised to see many more cuts. This is ultimately though all an excuse for a sales team that cannot deliver in maybe more importantly a market that is no longer interested in what Vibrant has to say. This is a company with a leader that although appears smart, isn't ever visible, is stuck in the past, and as lots of people already point out, hides away in his office or his house in France. This is a company that hasn't actually done anything new since the day it did what it did well all those years ago (BlackBerry?), and cannot organize itself internally to get anything done. They don't finish anything they start, don't have anyone who is experienced at what they do as most leaders are promoted through attrition, and they are therefore winging their way through life with quite frankly very predictable results.