The bare minimum is a pretty low bar
Pros
My direct manager is fantastic and so are the people I work with, so my work/life balance is fine for just a job (ie not a career-path) and clients are so pleased with the legal services I provide.
Cons
Both old employees (who came with the company from PwC) and new ones who were hired after are extremely underpaid in any market. On regular hours I'm making £10.50/hour, when this job requires legal experience, university degrees, and getting through a rigorous hiring process including multiple interviews and direct aptitude tests from solicitors. The partners made a killing when this company transferred, and they continue to make record profits. We keep being told it's a start up culture so we should all be building the business and bringing on new clients, but there is so much work to be done for clients and no one has let me do anything else in a year plus of working here, despite having been hired in the first place to do business development. There's very little bonus structure (I got better bonus working retail), no cost of living adjustments for staff, promotions only once a year with the barest minimums of salary increase. Any other job perks are a result of UK employment law that are required and have nothing do to with the business making any kind of compensation or retention decisions.
