Pros
Well the pay is quite good like everyone else has said. The individual contributors in the engineering team are actually some great folks, they are very capable and good team players. I definitely made some good professional contacts there. I also learnt some new technologies. Please do NOT get carried away by the Pros, the Cons far outweigh the Pros.
Cons
Where do I start? There is no direction or roadmap. The marketing team is incapable of providing any insights on what product development should be doing, engineering pretty much decides what they need to do. They brought in some senior management people to design and deliver the next generation configuration and management software that combines their 2 main product lines into one software. First of all this software was not about any core video features or improving the performance of the product, it was just to aggregate the management interface of the product lines into one software. They hired a bunch of people for this project, while they were good engineers, the senior management was THE WORST I have witnessed in my 15 years of experience in the industry. I really don't have anything to say nice about the senior management, which was utterly incompetent, had NO clue about the technology, and had faintest idea about running a team, which made really senior architects with 25+ years experience to leave the company. People started leaving the team, the project status was always green in weekly reports showing no risks or issues but yet the project was postponed 4 times by more than 6 months and absolutely zero stuff was getting delivered, and yet no action was being taken to fix this problem and the senior management of the project was allowed to continue. I guess incompetence feeds incompetence. The company has not too many patents, they don't have too many customers, they don't have a vision or a roadmap, so I have to say neither IPO or getting acquired is a possibility. Close shop and find other jobs or just look for more funding and continue the insanity. I read the bad reviews here and still wanted to give the company the benefit of doubt since the people I spoke to during the interview seemed so nice, but never will I make the same mistake again. Just see that one review where the person has scored RGB 4.0 out of 5.0 and praised the company and see the tons of comments that review has received. There is a reason for it. The valley has a lot of good startups, save yourself from a bad career decision and look elsewhere. Thank you and I really hope this helped.