Vantaggi
I worked with several top notch people, capable both technically and in leadership, before they left and I left.
Svantaggi
It does not appear from the evidence that the Directors/SVPs and Board have ever run an actual business that had to sell a product. Company resembles a fighter plane throwing chaff, lest the adversaries get a clean shot. Difficult to fix a company with this much dysfunction by quadrupling the executive staff while contract revenue is static at best. That creates chaos, gossip, and jockeying for position from the executive staff on down. Bloating the number of execs is a time-honored tactic for companies on the way down: CEO brings on cronies to serve as tight ends, or upon whom to deflect blame. They're paid well enough that it is immaterial, comes with the territory. Mission focus is lost. Since one of the Board jobs is to bring in business, they don't seem to be doing too well at that, either.