The company has a hard time getting new business and retaining people who have ambitious career goals. The owners are both trying to be fully-billable employees, which would work out fine if they had someone else developing new business or allowed some of the existing employees some autonomy in proposal writing / and executing them.
The company works within the Intelligence community and has been ineffective (maybe their fault or maybe not) at getting clearances for new hires. Promises to employees about an employee stock ownership plan have been unfulfilled for the nearly 5 years I have been here.