Pros
During the 3+ years I worked at Key Ingredient I saw the business go through a lot of changes. What was once an environment with horrible morale that was managed by executives that were willfully oblivious to how terrible things were is now a super friendly, hard-working, transparent environment.
Dog-friendly, casual dress code, flexible schedule, (very) small team size, semi-frequent team lunches, and a CEO that takes an interest in you and your career made for an awesome place to work. I was very sad to leave such an amazing team.
Cons
The future of the business itself can be unclear with occassional worries of being closed by investors. Whenever these concerns arose there was transparency and communication about the state of things. We were never in the dark about what was going on.
Because of the small company size there isn't opportunity to move upward, but the CEO is very invested in helping you grow your career and making the most out of your time at the company.
