Pros
1.) Flexible work schedule 2.) Free soda and snacks plus frequent catering 3.) Nice office space
Cons
1.) Poor communication: top-down and cross-departmental communication is quite lacking. Work and decisions are very much completed in silos which negatively impacts the organization as a whole and leads to confusion among the employees. It is not uncommon for employees to find out they have new positions and new managers by reading a company-wide email. 2.) Weak leadership: could very much benefit from management training and a more selective recruiting process (lots of executive and mid-level management turnover within the past few years) 3.) Gender inequality/little diversity: no women on the leadership team and furthermore the ratio of females to males in any type of management role is embarrassing (less than a handful of women managers in a 300+ international employee base with the majority of those being within the HR department) 4.) Growing pains: frequent (and poorly communicated) re-orgs lead to a weak structure and instability of job roles and teams 5.) Corporate culture: There used to be monthly corporate events that built camaraderie and team cohesion but those have long been phased out. Corporate culture has quickly turned negative and toxic. 6.) HR is not a practical solution to employee issues - do not share anything with the HR department that you would not want shared with the rest of the company. Matters spoken in confidence are known to be shared along with their source (on more than one occasion).