Pros
Some of the things that made CitrusByte/Theorem/TheoremOne great are still present: • Remote First • Good work-life balance • Great people • Many high-profile clients • Unlimited vacation policy (that actually works)
Cons
On the flip side, acquisition by S4 is eroding many of the reasons I joined in the first place: • Empowered, bottoms-up culture being replaced by top-down command-and-control. • Radical Condor replaced with secretive, need-to-know information hoarding. • Sales funnel has dried up. • Getting on a new project is like The Hunger Games where the last one standing gets the job and everyone else is RIF'ed via the strict bench policy. • Career growth is limited with little to no room for advancement in title, pay, etc. • Executive management is largely absent. They'll show up to sign a new client contract, but otherwise you're more likely to see them posting pics from Cannes on LinkedIn or chatting with Elon about their CyberTruck on X than on internal communication channels. • Upper (non-exec) management is in over their heads, struggling to run a business with the scale and scope of the post-acquisition company. • Front-line management is stretched thin, having to perform double duty as senior individual contributors as well as people managers; resulting in being less effective at each.
