As a newly hired employee, I've had a very rough experience at the firm and even worse, I'm not alone in this. So many issues, combined, make this experience unbearable on a day-to-day basis. Although the experience can be subjective, it's really important that these be considered or else you're just testing your luck. Here's an overview:
- your career manager (the one responsible to staff you on a project) makes or breaks your career. Most CMs I've heard about do not care about their subordinate's growth, development, conflicts, etc...they're only looking out for themselves
- Besides the CM role, no one else is formally expected to support, mentor, or advice you...
- this firm is just as politically driven as its clients are...relationships win over merit and morals. So just imagine, as a new hire, if you don't have a relationship with your CM, you're already on an island. You don't have any other formal source of support.
- there's an expectation that you should know every single thing required because no one wants to be accountable in training or educating you about the most foundational things like process
- people are often pressured to sacrifice their integrity
- some contracts are setup in a terrible way where the firm has overcommitted without the necessary resources...and the team has to take the lift for the firm
- you are pressured into situations where you're working 110 - 150%
- people have hidden agendas, so you never know who you can trust
