Pros
- In more renovated offices, a great working environment. - In general, great people with good attitudes. - Ability to work on many interesting projects. - As a result, gain many valuable skills quickly. - Corporate is pushing collaboration between offices, countries. Opportunity to work in many locations and with people on a global scale. - Relatively flexible working hours and locations (from home, from other offices if traveling) if you have the right manager and working group.
Cons
- Compensation is very low for the type of company this is. Management claims they perform benchmarking and ERM is on par with competitors, which may be true in the environmental engineering and testing realm. However, as the company grows and performs more management consulting functions their competitors in this realm are at a much higher scale, and employees therefore expect more. - Very low vacation time. - Very few USA holidays given to employees. Many bank holidays or government/school holidays are not observed. Problematic for those with kids, but excused as on those days employees typically choose to work from home. - Typical consulting stress/problems related to billable hours goals. - Jack-of-all-trades need can get a bit trying. If you're a scientist who is great at science and projects but terrible at selling work, you will not fare well. - Collaborating with other regions can sometimes be difficult and there may be infighting, as a remnant of the company previously being franchised. Management is trying to discourage this, but it is sometimes still present.
