Pros
Free snacks and lunch; Cubicles instead of open floorplan; Alcohol abuse encouraged on Fridays; Can coast without worry as long as you are in Engineering or show appropriate respect to CEO.
Kontras
Contract software development company in a small, niche market trying desperately to reposition as platform / solutions provider, without offering anything even comparable to competition. Culture is CEO-focused, with CEO acting as CFO, CMO, CSO, and GOD. Cronyism abounds, with backchannel communications over-riding assigned organizational responsibilites. Product quality is secondary to release schedule; release schedule is secondary to sudden urgent opportunities which never pan out. Much-publicized Executive Team brought in to woo VCs gone once VCs declined to invest.