Pros
The people you interact with on daily basis are amazing people. Hard working people that know what they're doing and are willing to help others as needed. The engineers designed top quality optical profilers, and really understand their craft. While the growth wasn't amazing the business almost always made at least a small profit even during tough times.
Cons
New products were rushed and never felt fully completed. Priorities were always skewed, and you could never be sure what fire or project you would be working on for that day. Time and effort wasn't spent on the products that were actually making money, but instead on fairy tale markets that never come to fruition. HR was more or less nonexistent and seemed to be more out of the business than trying to help the employee. They had no career growth or any plans to help you grow your career. Unless you had an offer from another company in hand you could forget about any growth. Changes were forced down on us by people not even present at the factory. This is very obvious as they seemed to think the engineers can just be dropped in and start being effective right away. This business unit was doing well despite management, but with all the key people moving on to better things it's unlikely that they will continue to do well.