Pros
Products are making an impact
Interesting and challenging problems
Good team members make the job better
Kontras
Every Single Team is short on staff, making record profits, but can't get budget approval because Thoma Bravo promised investors 4x return in 4 years. Layoffs and budget reductions everywhere.
No one actually knows how everything has been built over time, so we're reinventing all the wheels, but only getting a small time-frame to do it. We're scrambling at break-neck paces and putting out worse results. Any protest is met with mandated 'request' to "keep feedback focused on positive solutions".
A little salty about the sale and turn private where Adam and Jad made over 200 million dollars and still rolled 60% into the new company, framed it like a sacrifice, and didn't give the 300 people who got them there ANYTHING. We even skipped holiday events so that we saved budget. The C level cash-out value was roughly 1 million dollars per employee and we're on our 2nd year of wage increase freeze.