Pros
-They pay well; I have to give them that. -Many opportunities to move around the company to land in a team that you like, doing work that you enjoy.
Cons
-The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. Constantly changing priorities and tasks. Most of the time, I don't know what I'll be doing day to day, or even hour to hour within the same day. -While it didn't start out this way, my job has devolved into a perpetual fire drill. I almost never get to take lunch anymore because there's always some fire to put out, and my hours are steadily getting longer and longer. -Project plans? Milestones? Deadlines? Your deadline is ASAP and your project plan is don't screw up. -All too frequently, some one-off analysis you only had 2 hours to slam out becomes the basis for some greater project, and now the VP is quoting it in meetings, and all future work you do for the next 6 months has to tie out to that thing you did on the fly when you should have been taking your lunch. -Little appetite for change or nuance, and a huge emphasis on not surprising people. If base data updates or methodology improves, too bad, continue using the outdated (i.e. less accurate) version of your analyses. We dare not surprise the Big Boss with numbers that were different from the ones we showed him two months ago.