Pros
They pay well and you find small groups of good people to commiserate with.
Cons
The executive team, including PE ownership, and the company itself are misaligned. The focus from above is to continue to bolt on acquisitions and inflate the revenue numbers at all costs. M&A can be a strategy, but it has to be done with thought and care rather than jumping at each and every possible deal. The focus on this growth strategy has caused severe deficits in the back office and overarching corporate processes. You need to give people the time to build out and mature the company rather than expecting everything to be done overnight. Instead, the M&A team continues to bolt on additional workload with no respect or care for daily functional operations or lack of existing process frameworks. As long as the acquired company or asset is "integrated" they are celebrated. This is in spite of ongoing processes to actually complete the integration that span months and sometimes years after they've thrown their celebration for a successful "integration". This company is growing but not growing thoughtfully. Leadership should take a step back and reassess a sustainable growth strategy rather than focusing on their own payout from a future sale by the PE firm. The employees are not happy and will leave if things do not change. That is if they are not "synergized" first.
