Pros
- Friendly team with good social connections - Culture of business travel only when necessary, supporting flexible working - Potential for range of experience with big name clients - Feel supported to pursue training and to get what I want from the role - Punches above their weight competing with big 4 for work - Accepted reduced profits to avoid redundancies during a quieter period, which retained good talent until busier period arrived - I think they genuinely believe in their corporate values and try to encourage them - rare amongst places I've worked. - Improving focus on core offerings as company gets bigger rather than pursuing too many products
Cons
Usual consulting challenges - Quite frequent that people overwork (although I didn't feel overtly pressured to, it was very common so felt like the expectation at times) - Time closely managed via timesheets - must justify time, which often means seeking out business development work to fill unbilled hours. Growing company challenges - Knowledge management isn't very strong at the moment and scrambling through past work for templates is quite common - As offshoring becoming more frequent, there are some challenges with supporting offshore colleagues to succeed