Pros
Concept was a game changer at the time At one time, it was fun and Visionary. It can happen again. Free Daily Lunch
Cons
1. Growing pains or perhaps just pains 2. Stagnation: Not moving fast enough to the original start-up mentality 3. Product still needs stability. Niche. 4. New Management results in tense atmosphere 5. Clique hiring process - qualified candidates ignored even for initial interviews 6. Company cultural bottleneck: successful legacy start-up mentality employees now experience spotty collaboration from new hires of extremely large public enterprise companies 7. Legacy Star talent across engineering, and marketing are terminated or leave 8. Excelling Sales people leave, because inability to execute 9. HR pressured to comply with orders even when not good business practice 10. With new executive team, everyone knows they are replaceable matter what they have accomplished each and every month has resulted in high stress environment 11. Competitors have caught up and fast exceeded 12. Pay grade is below par considering hard work, poor benefits and current culture of uncommunicative silos between management and teams 13. Playing catch-up when you were once an innovator start-up is tough