Pros
- Pay is good in my opinion - Work schedule is pretty flexible - My colleagues are all pretty good folks and easy to work with - Lots of horizontal communication and collaboration
Cons
- Promotion beyond Lead Associate is a crap shoot. - Incentive to promote from Lead to Senior Associate is disappearing. - Senior Associates used to be helpful and approachable, but more and more I'm finding them to be too absorbed in whatever it is that gets dumped on them. To be honest, I don't know a single one that seems happy. - Assessment system is out of control and extraordinarily time consuming and detailed while at the same time being subjective enough so as to allow for the good old boy network to exert its influence over actual job performance - If you're stuck on client site full time, then you're out of sight, out of mind (but still expected to come to the office for 'face time' even though you work full time at the client site).