Pros
Great work environment and small company so analysts can work directly with upper management. Great meals provided during the workday and during weekend meetings. Dogs allowed in the office and no drug testing. Plenty of opportunity for growth if you have immense attention to detail. Great for learning the real estate field and the entire development process. With such a small company you get experience in all aspects. Great location with affordable housing in southern california and the cleanest water in the state. Weekend excursions to beautiful coastal getaways were a plus as well.
Cons
Fellow employees are sometimes downers due to their own personality problems and unfairly blame upper management for their lack of work ethic and inadequate work quality. Your spreadsheets can't look like crap. People need to look at them and not be distracted by some numbers being right justified while others are left justified. Also if you can't remember after being told 20 times to print everything in triplicate then you are in the wrong line of work. And complaints about longer hours are just whining as far as I'm concerned. How many hours do people at Goldman Sacks work? Probably a similar amount. You either want it bad enough or you don't. They need more stringent hiring standards but being in the remote location they're in they can't be too picky.