Avantages
There aren't any left. Under the leadership of Jim Hoffman, ESP was fantastic, not perfect, but he genuinely cared about his employees and his customers. Money in his pocket wasn't the bottom line. The leadership ESP got stuck with is trash smartly discarded by other companies. These people brought in worker bees from their prior companies with promises of bonuses and high salaries. Those who do 98% of the actual effort, while the leadership with even higher salaries take 100% of the credit. Not sure what credit there is to take though. ESP continues to lose work, with new work wins, few and far between, and those that are won, usually doesn't result in actual work, just seats at a hopeful table.
Inconvénients
Going through a dam ramming barge, who liked to talk, but not listen, as an interim CEO was bad. I didn't think it could get any worse, yet it has. Lies told to the board of directors about project money in the pipeline for bonuses, a BD team that hasn't developed much, loss of faith by customers, and employees. No communication. Executives who hate anyone here they didn't bring in, and openly discuss this (great going)! Environment is rife with lack of trust between teams that used to trust each other implicitly. Loss of employee motivation that is a direct result of viewing anyone not within their little clique as cattle class.