If on the West Coast, the staff and senior pay is well below average, since salaries are standardized nationally (HR has never provided any material justification for this decision).
Depending on the project you're on, both your physical and mental health may be put in jeopardy unless you absolutely love the work you do. The ones who stay are the ones who live to work (and specifically this kind of work), rather than work to live.
The marketing doesn't align with what actually happens. HR and Staffing Managers will say to speak up in case you're feeling overwhelmed, but when you do, you're met with the response indicated in this review's title. If it's a repeat project, you're forced to work on every iteration, no matter how much you speak up, since they think the carryover knowledge will help them save on budget.
It truly depends on the individuals you work with, so you're forced to hunt down people with reasonable work expectations (40-45 hours, 50-55 during busy season), but unfortunately, there aren't many here.
Due to competition among the Big 4, leadership will always take the "bottom of the barrel" engagements, that involve unreasonable client expectations for a heavily discounted fee. This causes individuals to not charge full hours, take shortcuts in their work, work days at a time with little to no sleep, thereby resulting in poor engagement quality overall.
