Has its tradeoffs, but a decent place to work
Pros
- Compensation is competitive - Good affordable health insurance/ benefits offerings - Some genuinely good people to work with, and some very intelligent people to learn from if you can find them - Strong CPE program - HR department that feels like your friend, not a foe - Adapted well during Covid to keep employees safe and even gave raises during 2020 despite the hardship, really made employees feel cared for during the crisis.
Cons
- Inconsistent expectations from partner to partner, this leads to inconsistent skill development and expectations from one that will often conflict with expectations for another, making it difficult to grow as a professional who can provide consistent quality work. In some cases even fostered genuinely bad habits. - Many partners sidestep job scheduling and demand that work gets done even when you are scheduled to other clients. Likely happens at many firms but still not a pleasant part of the job environment. - Feels like a patchwork of many small groups/firms under one umbrella rather than one large firm that has itself sorted out and well organized. To be fair this seems unavoidable when you grow so much by consumption of other firms, but nonetheless not ideal to me.
