I was there when it was a publicly held company. Aside from the idiotic Pareto Principle posters that adorned the office, there was a fair bit of dysfunction and ethically dubious behavior.
Dysfunction took the form of constantly changing leadership, political shenanigans to demonstrate your "toughness" and a militaristic culture which I found somewhat bemusing given I served and the CEO who fosters and reinforces this culture did not. My impression of him was that of a SPECOP groupie or an arm chair general
The ethically questionable behavior manifested itself during each quarterly review. Aside from the brutal tongue lashings and abusive behavior from the CEO; While making promises to The Street to deliver double digit organic growth and profitability (which the company more or less achieved each quarter) it seemed to me to be nothing more than smoke and mirrors, given the number of layoffs that followed after each quarterly review and before every earnings call. In other words, while achieving their top line growth numbers (Revenue), they manipulated expenses (from the Human Capital line of the budget); cut staff left and right; and then would start on a new hiring binge at the beginning of every quarter.
