Pros
When I first started working for SciQuest it was a great culture, great people, everyone supported each other in a collaborative way with the customer in mind. Once we had the IPO, we lost our COO and hired a VP HR and hired a new CFO, things really changed for the worse.
Cons
The Executive Team really lost touch of promoting a culture and environment where customers and people were first. We lost flexibility and we stopped empowering people. Instead, we focused and communicated a "butts in seats" type of mentality and started to lead by fear - the CEO started yelling at people again, the new HR team could not be trusted, the Finance Management Team focused on $ only - everything changed and has significantly declined ever since. How we treated people, employees lost all respect, it now was a job and no longer our passion. People stopped challenging and started shutting up. We lost our creativity and innovation and our ability to speak up - which is what made us go great in the first place.