Pros
Startup culture to a T. The mission is something that can motivate anyone to wake up & be thrilled to go to work each and every day. The teams and individuals you work with each day are very close with each other & you will have a good support system within at the lower levels. Free/subsidized lunches and dinners for the hectic hours that are worked to complete various projects. Good if you like a non-routine work schedule
Cons
ICONs culture has taken a significant shift in 2022. As they scaled from 100 employees at the end of 2021 to around ~450 at the end of 2022 & receiving $460 million in startup seed funding, the culture went from caring about the employee to doing what is best for the company & indivduals at the top. Halfway through the year when hiring slowed down due to recession concerns, instead of letting go of some recruiters & paying them a severance for their service to the company, the company has fired 3 of them & claimed it to be "performance-based". There have been four new directors of departments externally brought in the last 6 months & they have done ruthless overhauls of departments & undiplomatically let go of employees that did not fit into their vision. ICON may spout about Diversity & Inclusion, but the current data says otherwise. Out of the senior leadership (CEO, CFO, COO, CPO, VPs, & Directors) all of them are white male (with the exception of a white female at the helm of HR). The monoculture that is presented at the top represents the gatekeeping that is often seen in tech & ICON exemplifies that. With the seed funding and publicity of contracts with NASA, DOD, Lennar, etc., ICON knows the gem that it now has and realizes that they can overwork, underpay, & ignore employee satisfaction/needs because there is always someone else waiting to fill the position of an employee no longer on board the new way of operations
