Pros
The salary is average-to-good for Portland, though not keeping up anymore. It is hard to get fired if you are a developer. Sensible work/life balance, though flexible hours are a thing of the past.
Cons
Upper management's view of the development group is myopic and confused. Priorities are disjointed and inconsistent. Tons of effort and hundreds of thousands of dollars are wasted building products with no markets and no business models, while the ancient and decrepit core product responsible for at least 99% of revenue receives only minor cosmetic updates. Middle management understands neither the business nor the processes of software development. Product management is unable to lead product development, doesn't understand Agile methodologies and is unwilling to ask hard questions like why the burndown chart never moves and release dates are months to years behind schedule. The development process is a fiasco in slow motion. The engineering team is talented but under weak leadership. Development decisions are based on ideology and (metaphorical) fistfights instead of pragmatism, intellectual rigor or business sense. Projects are built according to personal ideologies, often completely from scratch, regardless of the cost in time or money. In a better company, this would be tempered by management. Instead, some team members have become tin despots, more interested in impressing the brass and lording over those below them on the organizational chart than actually contributing. The result of this mess is that release cycles are measured in months or even years. The simplest of products, a so-called "Minimum Viable Product," has been in development limbo accreting unnecessary features for years. The wrong people have been fired as scapegoats on several occasions, while people who deserve firing are not, including people who are caught lying on their resumes. In any other market, this company would have gone bankrupt years ago. But Kavi is in a tiny market with no competition until quite recently. A new company has begun taking customers away from Kavi, and this will only continue, while upper management tries to rectify the cultural dysfunction by creating "Fun Committees" and handing out $25 gift cards each month.