Pros
-Good group of employees for the most part.
- If a capable employee, chance to advance fairly quickly.
- Good opportunity to learn the industry from the bottom up in small environment
-Will hire less qualified candidates and invest in training them
Cons
-Long hours, including uncompensated "on-call" shifts
-No positive reinforcement, typically only hear when you mess up
-Benefits nominal and awful
-PTO is almost nonexistent and very difficult to use
-Too much management, resulting in micromanagement
-Office culture has a tendency to be unprofessional
-Lots of long-term employee's receive preferential treatment, despite terrible work ethic and lack of production
-patronage between management factions and preferential treatment with interoffice disputes
-Salary far below industry standard, business lulls/hardships are felt primarily by employees rather than ownership
-Poorly organized divisions of labor resulting in skewed expectations and outputs
-No investment in employees or the long term future of company, stuck looking at the short term rather than the "big picture"