Vantaggi
There are a few good people left despite that most of the leadership and talent has left. Despite Deluxe's initial discomfort, they still have beer and wine stocked in the fridge, and have some fun employee events.
Svantaggi
Deluxe (VR parent company), sees employees as variable costs (so reducing salary equals profits), not as an investment, and their CEO complained at an engineering meeting that engineers are paid too much in SF, and that they are half the cost in Atlanta. Previously, VR was already well below market in salary/benefits, and after acquisition, the scenario is worse. Adding further aggravation, VR's HR has been more of a roadblock to employees rather than helpful (e.g. condescending, intimidating, antagonistic, disdainful, hourly workers treated as lower caste). In Engineering, previous management left legacy of aan anti-collaborative environment, and so you see lack of coordination and reinventing the wheel situations. Recently promoted leaders, seem to have misogynistic view, and seems to want replacement employees to be the ones that work overtime without question and don't take vacations. In Operations, the environment is positioned as pro-collaborative environment, but in reality, it is a restrictive hierarchical structure, with low-trust, without shared ownership. Overall, there is little opportunity for growth. Many people are leaving (more than 40% reduction in workforce), with more than half of Ops leaving (4 remaining), and all but one senior engineers have left (at least 5), along with numerous other engineers, and seasoned leaders in other departments have recently departed. There's widespread demoralization, and a culture of silence regarding the problems (such as restricting email lists so that employees cannot say goodbye). VR is loosing the machinery to develop the the product with loss of talent, and they have lost the culture that made the environment a fun place to work.