Pros
This place is great for two kinds of people: 1. Those who prefer to just keep their head down and do exactly as they're told, with no opportunity to exercise the expertise you've developed in your career, and 2. Former Big 4 employees and/or ivy league B-school grads who couldn't actually cut it in corporate so they have to take what they can get.
Cons
As other reviews have mentioned, PMI is about 2 years into a digital and strategic transformation that has the potential to preserve their relevance in an increasingly crowded field, and among major shifts in the market that they should have anticipated and responded to long ago. But they didn’t. So now they’re running around like chickens with no heads brandishing bowls of spaghetti that they fling at what they think are walls. But who can be sure since they have no heads? This organization decided to take some ambitious, bold steps into new ways of working, confronting a threatened business model and diminishing domestic interest in their primary line of business (the golden PMP). In the process, they forgot to confront glaring cultural, process, and infrastructure deficiencies that have been an impediment from day-one. So what to do? Drop millions into name brand consulting firms, crowding out (literally and figuratively) the truly remarkable talent begging to be at the table. And then consecutively fire every single one of those consulting firms when they don’t deliver the miracles demanded by what seemed to be a dictator-like kingdom-builder (and his sycophants) whose hubris would have bankrupted the company if he’d been selected as CEO. Okay, so get to the point already. Here’s what you might experience if you accept a role at PMI: >Long-tenured, experienced, talented colleagues (some with PhDs in their area of expertise) reduced to ticket-takers, declawed and disillusioned to the point of hopelessness. >Those same talented staff pushed around by mind-numbingly dull new-hires who have “impressive resumes,” lots of business-world words (yes, synergies), and egos so large that its impossible for the tiny flicker of value they might be able to offer to shine through. >The overt perspective that negative outcomes are simply the opinion of he who delivers the news. It is very unpopular – actively frowned upon by some management – to acknowledge that an initiative or project is underperforming. Far better to obscure that reality and continue building upon a deeply flawed foundation, literally lying to senior leadership who probably know it’s a lie but are too complacent, negligent, or both to escalate. >And even a little bit of misogyny. Men in management literally raising a finger and shushing junior female staff who dare to disagree.
