The place runs on a shoe string. Probably because their revenue stream is so poor. There have been no meaningful pay rises in the last 4 to 5 years, so get yourself a good deal to start with as you wont be keeping up with inflation and definitely not with industry pay trends.
So the only way to get a meaningful salary increase is to be promoted - and to do that someone has to leave, or be forced out. This leads to a disproportionate amount of bickering and backstabbing - work there and it will happen to you. There's an underlying atmosphere of mis-trust, its all friendly to your face, and knives out behind your back. In the end it wears you down.
Of course you can line up another job and threaten to quit if you dont get a promotion - that works a fair bit too - but in the end it rewards your dis-loyalty, so if you go that way your more-loyal peers are going to be out for you even more than they are already, and your managers wont trust you at all - but given they hardly trust you anyway that's no big loss.
There's no training budget either - there really isnt one at all, nix, nada, nil - so you wont get any training - its all "on the job" and only when its needed by the job you will already be working on - which adds to the delivery pressure.
The technical staff at Piksel know they are talented (and they really are) but boy do they know it - its bumping egos and massive sensitivities to criticism everywhere. They are not going to like this review at all.
There's a culture of we-are-better-than-everyone that is in the end wearying and boring. The amount of time in any given day spent discussing how stupid x client is and how smart they are is out of all proportion.
Overall it looks good on the surface - but just under the surface its very very unpleasant.
