Pros
Very intelligent colleagues and clients. Management flexibility with respect to work/life balance. Opportunity to work with some of the latest technologies.
Cons
Nuance is a name lifted from one of ScanSoft's acquisitions. ScanSoft itself was the name of a division at Xerox which a company called Visioneer acquired. Visioneer has not stopped. Entire unrelated groups, working on the same or competing technologies, or working on technologies that have no relationship at all, are all under the Nuance umbrella now, and while it may make sense to senior management, it just doesn't to many of the rank and file. The firm deliberately has no official mission statement. This is an acquisition machine; whatever you're working on, it's only this month's toy, and in a year will represent an increasingly small amount of revenue to Nuance, because of the newer acquisitions the company has since made.