Vantaggi
It was a great company to work for, they paid nice competitive salaries. Culture just a few years ago was top notch. I remember the feeling of going to studio to meet my mates, it was never just another "workplace" but a cool headspace with a bunch of closely tied friends who did something magnificent together. Gone.
Svantaggi
1. This company engages in shady practices of quiet-firing seasoned employees to avoid severance pay by incrementally overworking, underpaying and restricting PTO use. 2. Lack of promotion opportunities, you might be selling your skills and expertise for same income as much younger team members who literally just graduated from university. 3. Inability to compete with the job market. Almost universally, fellow engineers get better offers from outside and leave in droves, while talent retention unable to counteroffer and takes it lightly. 4. It seems that the acquirer (Take2) has bought the company with the goal of dissolution. Division budgets are long gone, senior leadership unanimously left the building close to acquisition period. Some middle managers not investing neither interested in nurturing their teams health, performing just the bare minimum of moving tickets on the boards, skipping 1:1s, forgetting about their reports existence as soon as they wrap the call. Total lack of recognition and personal accomplishments. I see no clear picture where this business is heading after the acquisition.