Few performing players, but zero performing teams
Pros
1. Competitive Salary and street creds, when you interview elsewhere. Everyone knows hopper and you get a lot of (undeserved, I may say) credit 2. It's a cool brand to throw out when you tell people in the bar that you work for the app 3. Some individual contributors, especially in the dev team, are star players - my guess is that they will be poached out, very soon.
Cons
1. Rampant nepotism and need to be in the 'In crowd' to climb the career ladder 2. Misallocation of power, it's not clear who is in charge. A colleague in Marketing department can someone start driving the Product Roadmap, and the Product person on the Operational side of things. 3. A lot of baby-sitting the management team, from middle manager 4. Just had our numbers out, and I don't know how we are going to make the numbers we are promising our investors. 5. Poor practices - teams like Product to Ops , really don't have solid management practices in place as most of the people in these teams are 'home grown'. I would say Dev and Eng in comparison, has their stuff put together (though just relative to the rest of the company). 6. Go work for other hotter startups instead - plenty in the area.