Pros
It's a cutting edge industry working in some exciting sectors.
Many of your colleagues are the nicest ppl you will ever meet
Cons
It is a company with serious HR problems. There has been a tremendous churn of senior staff with 3 Marketing Managers, Sales Director, Research Director and a number of FDs all leaving in the last 18 months.
This seems to be due to the behaviour of the CEO who appears to want to micro- manage senior team members. He will want information in super granular detail and then refuse to make a decision. If you are lucky you may get a rollocking for not delivering on a project when you are waiting for an in neccessary decision.
It is impossible, in my experience, to agree budgets for programmes unless they are a vanity project sanctioned by the CEO.
There is a great deal of favouritism. If you are in the CEO's gang - it seems that you can have anything, if not...