Pros
Cool technology (speech recognition, OCR) Great benefits (4 weeks vacation off the bat) Very lenient in working hours, allowing to work from home
Cons
The company is completely and solely driven by margin and market share improvement. Given that fairly little (to almost none) effort is spent on process improvements, the way to improve the margin is by turning the vice on the existing employees and increase their work load. Middle management is sitting between a rock and a hard place because they don't really have any power. All they can do is the execute the margin requirements from above, with the effect that their efforts are directed at pissing off the fewest people under them so they don't quit. There is also fairly little organic growth. The business model of Nuance is that of a 19th century European empire, where the path to growth is either purchase of threatening companies, or club them to death with lawsuits.