Pros
The company means well. The work-life balance is one area that the company does a great job at. Benefits are okay but 401k just started. Stock options can pay off huge dividends if the company is sold. Market leader, for now, provides some level of job security. Company parties are great. New Africa charity work is awesome and I really respect LVT for doing this.
Cons
There are a lot of Kool-Aid sippers at the company that will disagree with everything I'm about to say. Initially, I didn't see any cons with LVT but there are quite a few. First, the executives are relatively inept. While they have done a great job starting a company and getting it to the point they're at now, they have no business running the company anymore. While they're trying to hire people outside the company to help get the company to a certain level, none have looked in the mirror and realized they're not the best candidates for their own jobs. The company has gotten to the point where they need to all be replaced to get the company to the level they want it to be. Second, the "culture" they talk about is not what they claim it is. There is a culture of blaming others for failing, and very few people take accountability because of this. Third, some of the executives are way too full of themselves. For instance, the CTO believes he is the smartest person in the room. Between the way he conducts himself and his LinkedIn posts it makes me want to throw up. CEO plays dumb and says he wants input from everyone, but there isn't much evidence that he takes the input into his decision-making. He hears one thing he wants to hear and the company then makes million-dollar decisions without hearing the whole story. On top of that, any difference of opinion is not welcome, if it is not an executive thought it is not welcome, they're the "all-knowing". Fourth, there are no future plans outside of the next two or three years. At every company meeting, there is one date that gets talked about in the future and that is it. Everyone knows that the company is selling and because of that, there are no actual future plans for the company. All decisions seem to be around positioning to sell or go public. As such a lot of employees should be concerned about what a sale or going public looks like. Owners are positioning themselves to be okay but there are no guarantees the employees will be okay. Fifth, managers hire people that are experts in their areas, and yet they don't listen to these experts they've hired. There is a bit of a problem with managers positioning themselves to look like it was their solution that was successful.