Vantaggi
Spot Runner is a shop that eagerly devours new technologies. They see a shiny new bauble, grab it, shake it around, see if it rattles, then decide whether it makes sense in the bigger picture. For a technologist, it's a potentially great place for learning new things and building some solid engineering experience. That is however if you can stomach the office politics, the revolving door of engineers coming and going, and the seemingly quarterly re-orgs.
Svantaggi
Absolutely piss poor career management and opportunities. Management more concerned with territorial pissing matches than working cooperatively to you know, make a buck and succeed. A lack of vision that starts from the very top and trickles all the way down through the entire executive staff.