Disappointing but potential to improve
Pros
Main benefit is the people who work there, most genuinely care about the company and each other Expenses such as travel, food, and hotels are covered, though back office is quite slow at processing reimbursements. Fridays are "off" unless they need you to work, sold as a benefit when in reality you still have to catch up on all the work you couldn't do during the week since you’re at clients the other 4 days of the week.
Cons
Although the team is great, you’ll almost always be working alone after about three months. You’ll probably only see one other consultant a week at most. You are worked as if its a large consultancy firm, but the pay is about half. The bonus (30% of salary after year 5) is paid in the summer rather than January, which forces you to stay longer to receive it. Long hours and travel is awful, travel is expected on Sundays, they say they try to optimise based on your location but most clients are in the worst locations of the UK since its manufacturing. Most seniors have expectations that you have time for meetings and do work until you sleep, don't be surprised to get called at 9pm. Training is overstated. They highlight bi-weekly meetings as “training,” but in reality upper management rarely invests in proper development. Most sessions are prepared by team members the night before. Typically have more than 1 client at once, its good exposure however the work you do is trivial and just means more travel time between clients during the week. Due to the company outsourcing back office to cheaper countries, they are not great and means the team has to take on tasks such as recruitment, onboarding, training which is delegated to already busy staff. Difficult exit opportunities, as the scope of work is very narrow (operational excellence / continuous improvement.)
