Pros
Prestigious clients, 3x the responsibility of a peer in the same role at other companies, opportunity to learn from clients and their other vendors, opportunities to travel at a moment's notice, opportunities to work from home with a mandatory(45 hr work week), opportunities to break into management roles with little experience or education, undiscriminatory hiring despite huge unemployment gaps and job hopping, one only needs 15% of necessary job qualifications if one has a 'contact/friend/relative' in the company or 25% of qualifications if one is willing to work for 40% less than market, opportunity for impromptu staycations via 3-4 weeks of time off IF 'client demands' allow only (NOT guaranteed) or when work is very light in the middle of off season and management strongly encourages you (with very little notice) to 'take your time off' NOW. Opportunity to manage from a distance in a glass tower never having to in-person face your offshore resources, understand their challenges or explain why they get no increment for 3+ years despite raving reviews and annual review and client surveys and scores that clearly exceed 'meeting' standards. Opportunity to overcome being set up for failure with under scoped contracts, constant changes in staff, turnover, and difficult clients with little upper support. Opportunity to learn humility and gratitude from observing your colleagues in 'evolving' countries being subject to slave labor - which is typically deemed a legal and moral violation in 'developed' countries with UNIONS. Opportunity to let go of career passion and future and coast - easily hiding in the 90% of busy 'do nothing' asthe 10% of PRODUCERS run the show. Opportunity to LIVE as a socialist during working hours and observe how a HANDFUL of top staff and contracts carry the dead weight of the majority, yet get nothing extra. Opportunity to use computers, chat boxes and and digital venues to completely avoid face to face contact, conflict or even terminations, at all levels. Opportunity to witness first hand post merger downsizes, and mass exodus like clockwork of most employees at the 3 yr (fully vested) mark. Opportunity to observe 300 promotions (TOTAL) a year across the GLOBE of 40+ countries and 65-75k people (give or take 10k for mergers and buyouts), Opportunity for online training courses if you are willing to do the training on your own time and if your manager is willing to pay for them(the ones worth taking COST), barring they are not threatened that your new skills may surpass them or enable your to lateral or external departure, opportunity to be held like a prisoner on Alcatraz to the same client and career manager 3,4,7,9 years without change ...opportunities to get in the door from external as there is no regard for hiring from within, opportunity to earn PhD in bureaucracy.
Cons
The only con is the hiring, vesting, no increment general hiring model (for non Middle Managers and Higher) is designed for turnover at the 2-3 year point. For those in it for the duration, unless promoted to management (.00034% chance) you will be 'forced out' by your own personal integrity after 3+ years of no increment as health/benefit and living costs rise - you will take pay CUTS yearly and not breaking even causing salary regression.
