Pros
- Dress for your day - WFH - flexible with an allowable 2 days/week after passing probation (ask the partner not senior management to WFH though for one specific team if needed for an appointment before probation). - Some of the jobs are interesting - luck of the draw if you get to work on them though. - Social club is decent. - The 3 partners are friendly and approachable enough. - For the sake of protecting identities, we'll call all assistant managers, managers and senior managers just 'managers' - some of the managers are knowledgeable, approachable and good mentors. You only get to work with the ones in your team, though - and there are 3 main teams in Business Services.
Cons
- There's not a lot of work in certain teams and staff are disallowed from getting work from other, busier, teams. - The pay is low for lower staff levels, compared to other mid-tiers. - A certain manager monitors timesheets and micromanages all younger staff in their team, making the environment stressful and unpleasant to work in. - This manager also takes a minimum of 2 months to review jobs, even simple ones, which is incomparable to other managers taking only a few days to review difficult jobs. This would be fine if they then didn't ask that review points be cleared urgently the day they send it back after 2 whole months. It also makes it harder to stick to budget as staff then have to remind themselves what the job entailed since it's been a long time since last looking at the work. - That same manager also carries a passive aggressive tone, whether in person, teams or in email. Their pointed tone makes them extremely unapproachable and evokes anxiety in staff when we have to speak to them. This sentiment is held by lots of staff within this specific team. There are multiple assistant managers, managers and senior managers throughout the 3 teams, but once you join the firm and if you end up on this one team, it'll be pretty clear to see which one manager this review is referring to.