Pros
- Everyone at the company is the kind of person that you'd be willing to be friends with. I've never met an employee that was particularly difficult to work with, and that's largely because everyone is willing to take the time to communicate their point of view rationally and completely.
- The company management is flexible regarding your work, your hours, your location, and your level of input. Nobody here watches the clock, and communication about the direction of an individual's effort is encouraged.
- Access to lots of technologies. Want to work on Vagrant and Virtualbox? You can do that. Want to work on front-end of technical docs? You can do that. Want to work with giant corporations, or government? Take your pick. Open-source product development? You got it. Web-Dev? There's a spot for that. Onyx point has so many directions that it can expand in, and if you're a clearly capable and driven person then they can find a place for you and be flexible regarding the direction your work takes you.
- Is established and stable, doesn't rely on venture capital money, but still feels like a startup in many ways.
Cons
There are detriments to working with a company that has so much interaction with the government. Sometimes decisions feel as though they are made specifically for government customers. Sometimes accommodations have to made for government regulations even if you only work with private sector clients. Sometimes it feels like the government slows things down. That being said, there's beer in the fridge so it can't be that bad.
The pay is just OK. If you're the kind of bright and driven person that can work here and fit in, you could probably be making more money somewhere boring.
Lack of structure. There is definitely a need to be self-motivated at times.
