Vantaggi
Great software, an energized development and product team, passionate operations team, motivated sales. Making money hand over fist; blew away financial expectations for every quarter of my employment.
Svantaggi
My specific position began in an idyllic fashion with a fully staffed department. After the departure of two key staff members (co-lead and developer), the workload stalled as we outsourced and tried to cover other desks. Too many applications in our tech stack led to a lack of ownership or pride in any of them. Training stalled as the supervisor tried to cover the developer's desk. I was not trained to lead, but to cover. When a new director was brought on no attention was paid to the current process or workload, only an effort to completely replace. I was suddenly thrust into a position to which I was not trained and I was humiliated by failures I couldn't control. After all, you don't know what you don't know, and if there is no investment of time you will never know it.