Vantaggi
Smaller company; run by a very decent CEO who you can tend to be more in contact with. Ability to self-pace a little more than in bigger companies.
Svantaggi
Depends heavily upon a few companies for contracts. Some of those outside companies have very poor Directors in charge of projects. Statisticians who are into detail and take responsibility for their work may feel that "truthful reporting" is being tested by some of these outside PIs. Most resistance is due to these relationships with outside companies. Other issue: IT is too sql focused (sql-sql only) and slow to adapt technologies to other analytics software/methods; slow to modify the workstations; unable to understand technical problems enough to repair programming or correct data exchange issues (i.e. sql-sas).