Pros
There are plenty of good engineers within the company, many through acquisition of other companies - though few remain for long.
Cons
Version1 acquired our company, all the promises from their representatives during the acquisition and the alleged intent to honour current employees progression was quickly thrown out. As an example the previous company ran a comprehensive and generous academy scheme, which guaranteed moving onto a pay band of 40-50k after completion of a year. Repeatedly this was confirmed that it would be honoured by V1s representatives. When that time came the academy graduates they were offered only 80-90% of the minimum of that band. This was a disgraceful act to carry out against the most vulnerable members of the company, people who had taken up residencies in London due to the promise of the expected pay bands. When challenged about it V1 refused to allow the academy members to represent their grievances as a group, instead making them do 1 to 2 calls with the Director of Engineering and a particularly unpleasant HR representative. These calls were not allowed to be recorded, so management could lie about what was discussed, and were nothing more than a gaslighting event leaving the academy members unable to work due to immense demoralisation and mental anguish. Anyone who further challenged this was given a disciplinary for doing so. The Director of Engineering also verbally disciplined the academy graduates for discussing pay with their peers, which is a protected right in the UK. This gross misconduct by a senior member of the leadership team was never addressed by the company and no consequences taken against them for doing so. Within 6 months half of the academy graduates had left for better opportunities, costing the company some excellent talent and further demoralising those who remained. This is not the sum of the companies failings but is demonstrative of their lacking empathy, manipulative and corrupt leadership and inability to stick to their own alleged values.