Pros
The job - Workday is a great product and proving yourself in this job will put you in a good place for other jobs. You should know that Workday experience is very desirable in this job market. The people - CPSG does hire good people. I have made many friends in my coworkers. For the most part, everyone who works at CPSG is genuinely a good person. CPSG also hires smart people. Then again, you can't make it in this industry if you're not quick. The initial Workday certification exams are a good filter on who is qualified to succeed and not. The company - Free food a couple of times a week, we have a good coffee machine, upper management seems to want their employees to be comfortable in their workspace. Among consultants there is a flat structure. Management places a lot of trust in the consultants to be doing their very best job, so you don't have a supervisor breathing down your neck at all times. For the most part, managers just act as peers/mentors.
Cons
The recruitment process - You will be promised many things: a work-life balance, the opportunity to work entirely remotely after 6 months, and bumps in your salary after 6 and 12 months. I have yet to see any of these selling points be the case. Make sure you get everything in writing that you hear during the recruiting process. The hiring practice - Lately CPSG has focused its efforts on hiring inexperienced Ivy Leaguers. The CEO only cares if you went to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton, even though the people who come from there have no background in IT or legitimate interest in a long-term career in Workday. Still, if you went elsewhere that he thinks is sub-par, you will be offered less compensation. And nepotism and cronyism do prevail here. All of this is just shameful. The job - You spend most of your time talking to HR people who are under a lot of pressure from their upper management. These HR people then put a lot of pressure on you to deliver. CPSG doesn't have too many resources who are both skilled and have the bandwidth to help, so oftentimes you are left alone to figure out problems by yourself. It's a double-edged sword in that you get to learn, but you are on your own. CPSG focuses its efforts on the medium enterprise space, where timelines are rapid and budgets are lean. Some clients are really pleasant, but this is rare. The way some clients treat us is abusive. As a result, most times you just feel unappreciated. Workload - Each consultant should be staffed on no more than 5 projects in order to do a great job, but most of us are on more than 10. This is a problem because the clients need more from us, and we want to give them our time and effort but we simply do not have the capacity. The best job we can do under these circumstances is simply not the best job that we are capable of doing. Everyone works nights and weekends, and the emails never stop. When you are on PTO you don't actually get time off because you will get emails or calls from other consultants or clients to deliver. The need for personal space and a break from work is not respected. Compensation - CPSG has some cheap compensation policies. Our bonus structure is driven purely by billable hours. You can only collect your full bonus if you reach 85% billable by the end of the year, which may not be the case since most of us aren't billable for a while when we first start. Annual merit increase is 3-8% pending your performance review. For business expenses, CPSG makes us use corporate credit cards that we have to pay off. If you have an airline or hotel credit card, you won't be able to collect double points for your travel. Instead, upper management takes your points. No one likes these damn corporate credit cards. We are also paid below the industry standard.
