Things other than the core technology- personal growth is discouraged and professional growth is non-existent (less that 3% of the company have received promotions). Pay is on the low side of the start-up scale and stock options are pitifully meager. Office politics are strong and there is a very noticeable and distinct "Us" and "Them" -if you are on the them side you will get get a knife in the back.
Company culture is more interested in playing withe the cool technology than it is with making a good product or helping our customers succeed. This can make for fun days but not a great way to build a business or get the technology adopted. Very, very little time and energy is spend on anything other that marketing and R&D.
However the most con of the cons is leadership- The rules don't apply to leadership and their pets- they can travel in style, order excessive and expensive wine, miss quota time after time after time, fail to make any progress on product development and there are no consequences. Leadership cultivates pets who are not expected to contribute in trade for fierce loyalty, and others end up shouldering the pets work. The sloppy leadership trickle down to the rank and file and you find that LRI rarely takes accountability for anything.. wrong products delivered, unfulfilled contracts, and personnel lawsuits are a result. Individuals too are held unaccountable...until they want to fire someone- 5 group layoffs in the last year, each one was promised to be the last...
