Pros
Growing in size, central London offices, top management are ambitious. Global company, lots of offices around the world. Some excellent staff acquired over the years. Quite a fun blitz/death row spirit about the place.
Cons
Lack of transparency and direction Middle and even upper level management often how no information on future strategies Sudden lurches to latest buzzword management styles often completely conflicting the last set of management instruction. Confused staff eventually become cynical. Seem to have the following approach to acquisitions: remove benefits, no information for 6 months to a year, force new contract, loads of people leave the rest sign new contracts, sack 10 % of remainder just before Christmas. Close down old office and move staff to main office, keep moving staff every 6 months until no one knows where anyone is. Then forget about them and move on to next acquisition. Comical review process - You've probably changed department/entity that year plus likely your manager and his manager has left of been made redundant so person doing your review hasn't a clue what you've done all year anyway, changes every year, no information throughout the year, week before review deadline review information hurried out, mad rush to complete review for all staff members before week is over. Everyone forgets about it for another 51 weeks and repeat :) Strange approach to pay rises / bonuses - Sometimes very good well in excess of what expected mostly nothing. No information on why except strange town hall with megalomaniac CEO / 20% owner / ex investment banker with a serious case of turnover envy who goes off on odd tangents about making a billion $ company whilst telling you there are no pay rises as if you are a shareholder/investor and give a stuff. Feels a bit like a state of the union address but from Kim Jong-un. At the start when Ion took over the company I used to work for I thought that they were ruthless, cold hearted people who were terrible to their staff but had some kind of efficient masterplan but over time I've realised that they are just very bad at managing a company of this size and its staff its more cockup that conspiracy