Avantages
I work in one of the European offices. Throughout the company it has been a though year but we are in a much better shape than we were a year ago, let alone two years ago. Over the past year the company has been head down on streamlining our efforts and focusing our resources, that means cutting down projects that are not core to the company (actually finding out what the core was) and reducing the work force where necessary. This has made a tremendous impact internally, Software Engineering, Continuous Integration and Testing are now really a focus on what we do rather than the patchwork of projects we used to do, and communication and collaboration has increased significantly. This is what DAQRI should have been from the beginning. Unfortunately, it also means a lot of angry and frustrated former employees who saw themselves not counted anymore as a part of the core. I can’t blame them, they have all the right to be angry (I would be too). But the reviews they leave are for what the company was rather than what it is today. We are now a truly engineering focused company, communication is encouraged and made available openly. We still have some way to go, legacy processes (or lack thereof) and codebases that need investment, but we are finally focused on the right path.
Inconvénients
My answer a year or two ago would have been long, but not so much anymore. There are still some remains of the old DAQRI, but it is more a matter of time than direction change.