Pros
Good work-life balance with a lot of flexibility as long as you pull your weight (although new management is now trying to foster a culture of presenteeism). Some incredibly smart people around (but sadly in the middle of a mass exodus, 28 people and counting have left the technology department since the recent merger).
Cons
New technology management behaves like headless chickens, changing plans every other week and failing to set the company on a course of delivering any value whatsoever, yet senior executives lap up their excuses and promises of a better future "soon" instead of listening to the talented folks on the ground who can see that everything is on fire. Uncertainty is rife throughout the organisation, with no decisions being made and nothing but uncertain promises everywhere. Integration decisions are being made only based on input from people with no high- or low-level understanding of existing systems. Years of great work that delivered consistent results and exceeded all stakeholder expectations is being scrapped in favour of an unproven and hilariously misengineered magic new platform that is suffering constant delays and setbacks. Technology staff brought in since the merger is utterly lacking in diversity and feels like an almost Silicon Valley-esque boys club. Practically all of management comes from the "ex-Springer" side of the merger and makes no effort to hide their agenda of decommissioning everything Nature brought to the merger.
