Pros
At lower levels the work colleagues are awesome and this provides a social life outside of the company. Wide variation of nationalities. The industry of sustainable energy is the future and a great market to be in. As an engineer with little or no experience this is a fantastic opportunity. Company is run by engineers with great ideas looking to try and change the way the world will charge. Health Insurance included in most, if not all job roles. Personally, I always liked the CEO Enric Asunción, I felt that his vision for the company was to be a family environment and although that never translated down through the rest of the company, he is someone I would always speak positively about.
Cons
Desirable company as an engineer, highly undesirable in a commercial or marketing role. You are just a number! Consistently firing individuals with highly questionable motive. It is not common to see a "startup" company with investments of over 25 million Eur, 5 years in business and over 300 employees. However, whenever there is an issue with leadership, product, delivery or strategy, the excuse is always the same, "Well, we are a startup" and despite having nothing to do with sales, it will immediately be translated into pressure to sell more. Essentially cutting your legs out from underneath you and then asking you to walk further than originally expected because we made another mistake. Inexperienced and misinformed engineers lead to consistent product issues, large delivery delays and being a reactive company as opposed to proactive company in given markets. They cut corners to bring products to market, 0 market entry strategy, one size fits all approach each market and their product requirements. Company cares about their public image more than their internal politics. SDR´s working in Account Executive capacities without being given the title or salary Targets are based on what their investors need instead of what is reasonable in each market which leads to high pressure to sell products even though product specs and market share are below industry average. This leads to a "We must reach our quarterly figures by any means necessary" approach and in turns creates a very lone wolf environment as opposed to a team working environment. In my opinion and that of many others, job security is based on your relationship with management levels as opposed to performance or experience.