Pros
Have budgets and money to do what we need to run the largest social data collection infrastructure
Have board-level support for new technologies, large-scale PoC and migrations.
Have board-level support for DIY. We don't allow people here who think you can just hook 'service to service' to do big data because they read it in a blog. We manage all of our own infra, all AWS, no 3rd parties.
Have clear objectives for 'how to win' in market. Gamifying our technical delivery in terms of being best in market is great.
Cons
All WFH has required management lift. But everyone is dealing with this.
Legacy investors who provide no value.
Not all teams comfortable with delivery speed and agile iteration.