Pros
For a short while - it can be fun to watch management monkeys at a circus.
Cons
What happens when you attempt to merge many quickly bought companies together and some were severely miss managed? If you want to find out and you are desperate for a job, come work here. You will get to see what a poor Management "Dumpster Fire" looks like. Where to start with this mess: - Billing to clients is frequently incorrect and not done in a timely manner. - We seem to be incapable of delivering an accurate product quote and projects never reach completion. - When we ship products to clients it is almost always the wrong stuff. - The company is drowning in high interest debt used to finance acquisitions. Debt means layoffs and salary cuts which means loss of clients and revenue which means... yep.. you guested it... more debt. - Clients Office 365 systems are getting breached weekly leading to spoofing and six figure losses to hackers. Management writes off the situation as someone else's problem and recommends other companies to solve the problem to their own clients! Handing away business opportunity, because they don't know what their own engineers can and can't do or how to manage a remediation! - Management foolishly thought they could cut cost by delivering services remotely with less experienced Engineers. It back fired and client losses mounted. One acquisition saw 80%+ of clients in the portfolio terminate managed services in a one year period following takeover. Inexperienced Operational Leadership is killing us. When Private Equity investors choose who is in charge, they tend to gravitate to those in the organization that speak their language. Business types in there 40's and 50's who have backgrounds in business and finance. This is traditionally a safe bet in most companies. Technology companies are different. The technology industry transforms every five years and the people on the edge of the transformation wave are younger engineers. This is why Facebook, Google and most technology companies in Silicon Valley are run by Millennials with Computer Science and business backgrounds. They have the Level 3 Engineering talent necessary to see the change and steer the company to catch the wave. Nexustek is stuck in a 1990's MSP mentality due to it being run by older executives who are at best Level 1 Engineers. They are good at throwing around corporate buzz words like "core values" and "playbook" and they keep the investors fooled about their own lack of tech knowledge because they still know more about tech then the investors. It is apparent at company meetings when no one in leadership is talking about VPC or Compute or selling clients on the idea of reducing the numbers of Infrastructure Layers that have to be managed. They don't talk about these things that are important to larger clients because they themselves don't know what they are talking about. If you have doubt, ask them what Kubernetes are. Have them demo setting up Docker or even explain why or how it might be used or be advantageous. This should be a red flag for any one interviewing as well as the constant never ending mergers. The best question to ask in an interview... "if you guys have bought so many other companies why haven't they been merged together yet?" Since they haven't, it quickly makes you wonder if maybe they don't have the running a business knowledge everyone thinks they do either.
