Pros
Nice office Good perks (Friday evening drinks and occasional meals out etc) Ok starting salary and decent commission structure which meant good potential for bonus Experience taught me that recruiters tend to be an unscrupulous lot and thankfully made me realise recruitment is not what it's cracked up to be.
Cons
Poorly run graduate scheme and questionable treatment of hard-working and talented graduates. The whole experience could be likened to a poor-man's version of the TV series "The Apprentice". Each week or two someone was seemingly being forced to leave mostly because the business as a whole was not performing as expected. Misleading expectations - total disparity between what was sold to us at interview and the eventual reality. Spent 10 months working toward a position which never materialised ( On joining the company they promised opportunities in the following sectors: Finance Insurance Risk Commodities trading Technology (Semi-Conductors) IT Contract At the time I'd left ~20 staff had been forced to leave and half the recruitment sectors it had at the time of joining the company had been closed (leaving only IT and Technology and a small commodities trading team). Perhaps caused by a decision to grow too quickly as a business and not focus on its core business i.e Semi-conductors.
