Pros
Generally nice colleagues to work with. Relaxed office atmosphere. Flexibility for moving between offices.
Cons
Partners don't listen to you. It's like they think it's the army and they can pull rank on you. The only difference between partners and consultants is partners get paid more for doing less work. Partners push for low prices for work to win more work, even though they know we need more. Ultimately it's the consultants doing the work who pay when the partners prevent us from booking all our time to the project, reflecting badly on us. Partners don't care just as long as they get their sales credits. I don't trust the senior management in the company at all. You never see them. No idea what they do day to day. Very little info communicated down. Very fragmented business units and teams. The senior management insist we collaborate a lot, but we don't. The way how teams work largely independently of each other is very counter-productive and inefficient. Lots of different tools for project management, tracking opportunities, budgeting, etc., but they all work independently of each other. A single integrated approach would be better. HR aren't human at all.They should be there to protect the interests of the staff, but really they just look after the interests of the company and partners. Poor quality control procedures for deliverables. Private equity company who own large portion of company seem to have strangle hold on day to day operations right now. Push for high UB, even when some markets are down. Bad for consultants. Next to no formal training. Too much reliance on inadequate online training. H&S team incompetent and difficult to work with. Graduates not inducted properly at all. Unfair and inconsistent hiring and promotion practices. Down to poor HR. Below average pay for consultants. Large disparity between pay of partners and consultants.
