-Terrible benefits.-slight salary bump from big 4, but after what's taken out of your check for insurances,etc, its barely a raise. No 401k matching until after a year, % and vesting schedule are below industry norm. Vacation/holiday PTO also on low side.. handful of other jobs you can go to with 25% more PTO and fully paid health benefits.
-"Bonus"- The bonus is based on "overtime" hours, so if you left big 4 hoping to have work life balance with a 40ish hour work week, forget any bonus. Also, in your first year it's nearly impossible to get overtime unless you want to work 80 hour weeks- Any non-client time you spend at the start for training/availability before getting assigned eats away at this.This was poorly communicated during hiring.Also this overtime bonus structure discourages employees who may work efficiently/encourages putting in big 4 hours/useless extra work.
-People- This will make or break your experience and it's a total gamble. Get assigned on a job with a bad MD/Senior Manager and/or project and you're pretty much stuck, scheduling is the opposite of flexible. Literally a gamble- As a manager I'd say 75% of my time there I was doing grunt busy work that a consultant (really an intern) should've been doing. The other 25% I was thrown onto work that should be done by an experienced Senior Manager/Director and given little guidance/blown off by the MD on the job when I had questions, so essentially a lot of spinning wheels and frustration...two polar opposite work situations. No change of specializing in an industry you do well on/take a liking to, like I said total gamble and you'll be lucky to get assigned on work that's at your level. On top of that there is no upward feedback process in place/zero opportunities for Managers/consultants to give feedback on certain MDs/partners that are literally known firm-wide as nightmares to work with.
