Pros
work/LIFE balance. Yes, capitalization matters. The thing they do best is pucker up when you need money for ANYTHING. Training? Forget it. A new laptop? Yours is from 2010, it's fine. Furniture for a tiny break room in a building with no other options? Not just no but HECK no.
Kontras
The company is privately held by its founders from the 1990s. They sit in Hollywood MD, far removed (in more ways than one) from the cloud business unit. They've delegate most of the day to day operations (anything except discretionary/morale money) to a non-technical VP (also the company CFO) with an entrenched micromanagement streak. People who don't want to do anything can skate for an entire career. Those who want to do something leave. Management humors whiners. Change is thwarted by any member of the "good old boys" club who thinks their turf might be threatened. Look at our website: small 1990s DoD contractor, determined to stay that way. A dozen attempts to modernize it were thwarted by whiners who thought their turf was being threatened. The 1990s DoD mindset it pervasive: "It has worked this way for 20 years, there's no reason to change it." "We want to change, we want to improve, we want to get better" - if only the actions aligned with the words.
