Pros
The ICs were genuinely anomalously sharp and good at their work. Baseline, they're significantly competent and exercise their agency well, and more than that, they try to set each other up for success. Among the ICs, people try to speak to the "why" of what we're doing. The pay was also really really good, although near the end there was a tendency to try to pay according to "industry comp ranges" as opposed to actual value to the company - which is honestly a crazy thing to do at a small search arbitrage company.
Cons
Senior management - I hesitate to say leadership - has no real strategic plan. The CEO just doesn't seem to add any value when present - at least none obvious to mere mortals - and for a while we had two CTOs? Management just below C-suite kept promising strategy and declaring priorities that were plainly not grounded in reality, and then walking it back after not meaningfully trying. ICs were kept in the dark to figure themselves out. The relationship with the parent holding company (Enero) was bizarre, but internal management was also bizarre. There was some kind of political fight in 2023 where the CEO ousted the CDO? And then the good senior managers quietly left? Senior management decisions after that were...odd, to say the least.