Pros
Flexible hours and dress code Decent pay and benefits Some very smart co-workers A few very cool people These are all good things, but you can find them at any startup
Cons
Career advancement opportunities only arise when the company is worried about retention (every other yr adjacent to a layoff/money crunch) Toxic executive team. "manage up" dominates mid management decisions due to executive rivalry. Executives do not delegate well, engage randomly, heavily on projects, marginalize worker skills and efforts. Bad news heavily frowned upon (especially when true). Go/no-go meetings pointless, strong preference to abandoned after launch vs no-go in case of failed dev projects. Most finish lines limped across after over-spending on deliverables that are too late or insufficient for market to care about. BioNano technology can now sort of do what BioNano said it would do years ago, but competing companies have caught up with products customers prefer (better performance and experience). Money mostly spent (on dev) to cover up flaws BioNano is afraid it can’t properly solve (perceived as disruptive advancement by BioNano). BioNano is 10yrs old with 50ppl in dev and 0ppl in marketing…. Company fixated on core tech being stand alone tool but can't figure out how to be meaningful on it's own. Useful when used with others, but BioNano can't accept this and misses out. Many startups also fail to execute during window of opportunity but maintain ability to raise money and turn into zombie companies like BioNano. If you are a serial startup type, it's not a bad place to be for a couple years before moving on to the next one.