Ventajas
I worked with some of the smartest and most insightful Joe's I know. Despite their habit of playing intense video games every afternoon in the office, they do solicit, support and expect good work from their remote workers. Evidently, they need commuters more than any other kind of worker ... they're designs for outside of their 50-mile radius never seemed to manifest.
Desventajas
Like many start-ups, or any business for that matter, they're not entirely transparent as to their expectations. Plus, tangential business relations with locals in the DC/VA/MD area who have competing interests in my area, who express dissatisfaction with my work and also suppress any chance I have of showing or participating in the work, trumped those of their own FT employees.