Pros
The projects, at time, can be interesting and push you to learn new skills and subject material you might not know much of at the time. Your co-workers can be really helpful, supportive, and help guide you along if you’re new.
Cons
Benefits are poor for what you pay for. You’d really expect from a company that claims billions of dollars in revenue every year that they would provide better benefits to its employees. Management comes off as nice at the beginning, but support is next to none. Managers and directors are stretched thin due to understaffing of projects so they’re either continuously rescheduling internal meetings, late, or not showing up all together without any form of communication. It’s highly unprofessional. Because of their consistently heavy schedules, the support you expect from a supervisor is next to nil. They point you to the online learning site, which had your run of the mill corporate training videos we know are completely separate from reality. If you’re coming into a project without any knowledge of what’s going on you’ll get lost very quickly, and instead of the managers providing guidance they pass it off to other senior consultants to do. Also, say goodbye to any form of work-life. There will be days where you’ll have meetings at 7 or 8 in the morning and 8 or 9 at night. Management tries to turn it into a positive since it increases the utilization which you’re required to maintain for the quarter and year, but you get nothing else in return. And on top of the utilization requirement, any time you take off that’s not a holiday counts AGAINST it, so while they offer unlimited PTO and sick time, you run the risk of not hitting your utilization for the quarter or year, which impacts your yearly review. And just for reference, I came into the company fully supportive of what we were doing and in favor of the company, but after seeing how chaotic things are run, I can’t sit idly by and not let others who are interested in this company know about this.