Pros
The people at Monsoon were some of the nicest, hard working people you could hope to work with. Flexible hours, and a dog friendly policy made office work bearable.
Cons
Upper management is a nightmare. The CEO hired fellow incompetents to be his yes-men, which led to the downward spiral that ended in the lay off over half of the company. The CEO knows next to nothing about the software that his company provides, and was incapable of providing any concrete plan for the future. Not only that, but he was outright dishonest about his employees receiving year-end bonuses, claiming that funds were being allocated, then 3 months later saying that the money was to come from a sale that never happened. So either he was allocating funds that he didn't have (not surprising), or he was lying directly to his employees. The dishonesty doesn't stop there however, on several occasions I had direct talks with people in upper management, and was assured X would happen, only to find out from others that that couldn't be further from the truth. The only upside is that most of these people jumped ship when the company started going downhill. All-in-all, it is a poorly run company in a downward spiral from which they may not recover.
