Pros
- Excellent compensation and vacation (25 days) at entry level in consulting workforce - Good knowledge sharing tools, processes and is geenrally encouraged - Great opportunity to work at leading companies and interact with senior management - Ability to mentor and manage a static set of people with career counselor relationship - Countless opportunities to network and perform extra-curricular activities
Cons
- Pay is below the market but the expectation is to be the best; work hours at middle management level are ridiculously high and the additional 12-15K when promoted to this level, doesn't compensate for the responsibilities and effort required - No concept of loyalty or doing the right thing for the employee - essentially you are a commodity and dispensed depending on supply-demand - Fragmented Operating Groups/ Cost centers that tend to take a narrow view of their best interests and not that of employee or bigger picture of the organization - Good for generalists but it is hard to specialize; technical competence is NOT well appreciated or suitably rewarded though a technical career path is now reluctantly offered - Top talents are leaving now especially in the last 4-5 months due to poor pay raise and bonus last year - Finally, the performance management process leaves a lot to be desired, subjective, and manipulated easily that ranks everyone (within your group and level). Almost everyone hates it and it is modelled along the lines of GE/Enron to eliminate the bottom 10% when needed and make everyone work harder