Pros
There are some great people working there.
Cons
This is what happens when an inexperienced greedy college student becomes CEO and majority shareholder of an aerospace company. He has unaccountable control of the company, disbanding the external board for a 3-member internal board comprised of himself and 2 of his direct reporting employees. The CEO is the majority shareholder of the company and controls every decision. He pays himself an undeserving high salary, which is additionally not justified when he should already be incentivized with the majority stake. Under his control, the company provides direct or indirect financial support or sponsorship to organizations that he or his family are board members of. Minority shareholders are not given insight to how decisions are made to determine company support to these organizations or how the company’s legal counsel (also family) is determined. Annual shareholder meetings have been requested and denied by the CEO. While the rest of the industry has been seeing high levels of investment, he has stood on the sidelines holding onto his majority control. He blocked an existing external shareholder selling their shares to an investment company. Shortly after, he jumped in and struck up a deal with the same investment company. Rather than using this as an opportunity to raise capital, the CEO made a deal to sell personal shares instead (at 4x the fair market value at that time, which subsequently dropped in half very soon afterwards). The CEO and the company's internal board members recommended the option, in which they were included for a piece of the deal, while skipping over longer tenured employees in the process. The CEO puts on a really great act when speaking to the public and politicians, but is internally demotivating, dismissive, and deflective. And the typical targets are the engineers and technicians. He usually spends an average 6 hours a day in the building, from 10:00–4:00, isolated in his office. A real hard worker. During a company town hall, he was asked how he holds himself accountable. The response was that he holds himself accountable by answering tough questions from employees. Shortly afterwards, questions and answer sessions were removed from all hands meetings and were no longer being collected. The same year he gave himself a significant raise, he stopped stocking paper towels in the bathrooms. Company RSUs are relatively insignificant and only have value if the company is acquired or IPOs and you also happen to work at the company at that moment in time. If you leave, they vanish. The CEO picked another great deal for him.