Pros
- Focus is to develop people and everyone is given a mentor to help direct their growth - Opportunity for promotion every 6 months (with a minimum of 1 year at each level) - Minimal travel - Everyone is intelligent and willing to help out - Expectations framework is a good guide around what is expected of everyone to be promoted - Very open and transparent company that tries to communicate decisions down and leave space for others to ask questions and get the clarity they need. - Focus on being generalist allows for variety of work to be done
Cons
- Work life balance can be an issue. Typically depends on project or client, but expectation is more to get the job done than do 40 hrs and call it a day. Strategy projects tend to be worse in this regard. - Mentoring is a huge focus but tends to be an after-hours activity. This can stress the work life balance more or can get deferred. Typically, this falls into doing extra work after your main client work. - A by product of always growing those under you, your mentor could be new to the role and not very experienced in it. - Variations in offices can lead to different cultures or gaps in capabilities expected at different same level. - Majority of the people you interact with are those on your project - it can be challenging to meet others within the office if you do not share a project with them. - Generalist model and single career path could be a con if someone wants to be more of a specialist.