Pros
The words N/A do not even explain this. Consider yourself at a loss with market compensation, safety, loyalty, and personal growth with-in the company.
Cons
First off, has the idea ever crossed your mind on what lengths an employer could go to hide their defects in an SME structure. Think before you find yourself hired into a sticky situation. As a former hardware engineer of this company, there are issues you need to be aware off. If your hoping for any advancement in this 35 person company, then your best bet would be to move out to silcon valley with a fortune 1000 company. Manufacturing floor is unjustly safe, where you may find 120v leads sticking out of the legacy encoders along with water leeks into the manufacturing plant. Their shelf life on the EN-91, EN-80, DPI-1200 is maybe six to seven months before a repair request backlog entry is needs to be made. This means, your workload is increase two-fold and give you little time for innovation. Mark-up costs are all to often PCB for repair that are associated to your units. Some of these intrinsic costs could be over 230% of the actual value. They have medical benefits, but its 50/50 coverage and changes almost yearly. Turnover in the Manufacturing and engineering is around 30-50 percent. Salary is 50% of the actual market compensation package. No bonuses or raises. Laundry list goes on......