Pros
- Small company in an interesting and fast-paced industry. - Focus on fundamentals leaves significant opportunity for creativity and personal initiative - Opportunity to interact on a high level with management teams of covered companies as well as institutional investors
Cons
- Senior management exudes an air of superiority that is completely unjustified - Company culture is toxic. Management tries to sell employees on the idea that the company is a family when in fact it is a dictatorship where people are plied with small freebees (snacks, bad lunches) while they are fleeced when it comes to salaries and bonuses. - Feedback is solicited from employees on a regular basis and is immediately ignored when it does not jive with management's views - which is pretty much 100% of the time - Professional advancement and compensation are limited unless you kiss up to management - Cost structure is bloated due to management pursuing secondary business ventures to compensate for the deterioration of the core business. The industry is rapidly changing and management believes the industry revolves around them