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"