Pros
Lots of snacks. Fun events. People generally want to work hard. People are generally committed to doing their jobs well and helping the company succeed. Mobility available between teams if you have interests you want to develop. The product is awesome and keeps improving. The purpose is applicable in today's market. Grow/the employees work really hard to help customers succeed.
Cons
No upward mobility. Even if you have the potential and skills to lead, Grow hires from outside the company to get their managers and VPs. There is generally a lack of communication between teams. If you aren’t of the same opinion as the management, you are likely to be marginalized and eventually asked to leave Grow. Lack of communication between management and employees. If a manager doesn’t like someone, they are usually let go without much explanation of what they did “wrong” or what they could do to improve---whether or not they were performing poorly. Some very hard and valuable workers have been let go without knowing what they could have done better. Expectations change frequently and are not communicated well to the employees. Employees “on the ground” don’t know what they need to do to succeed. It didn’t used to be this way, but management lets people go in order to bring their high-level friends in. Upper-level management tends to be prideful and care about looking cool to the customers, but as a result, they care less about the individual employees than they used to. It feels like there is not much of a long-term plan in many areas (marketing strategies, sales, pricing, etc.). Plans change every couple months.