Pros
I met some amazing colleagues that I still keep in contact with today. However, the majority of these amazing colleagues had left ACTIVE before I left or soon after my departure. ACTIVE can attract some amazing talent but retaining it is another feat. If you're bright eyed and bushy-tailed, you'll most likely get a ton of experience at an entry level position because you will be expected to deal with mid-level situations yourself. If you can't, well that's unfortunate because you'll then infamously be known as the idiot that can't get sh*t done but you'll still be exposed to a lot of the good, the bad and plenty of the ugly.
Cons
The C suite runs this place like it runs a prison and by fear. 8 AM to 6 PM walkthroughs from the C suite to see who all was at work. God forbid if you work with China every Monday - Thursday from 7 to 10 PM you leave work before 5 PM to have some semblance of a life. Unless you had a manager that protected you, you were screwed. China will not adjust their hours to your morning because there's more of them and only a few of the North American individuals on the calls. In addition to that, China is its own little monster especially if you're on the product side. The work that gets put out by offshore isn't always quality but in this environment, quantity trumps quality even if that means you're going to be fixing the same stuff 6 months from now because a customer cried about it. If you're lucky enough to have an empathetic manager, you will probably be protected from the onslaught of C suite demands but there are at times where hands were tied and you get stuck with terrible situations. Work/life balance didn't exist for certain individuals except for individuals that were favored by management and/or by the C suite. If you're not a favorite, you're stuck with the short end of the stick. On that note of favoritism, there were many times where individuals who didn't pull their weight who would either go unnoticed or be praised for being mediocre. This made no rhyme or reason to me. The work that got missed would end up burdening other team members and nothing was ever done about the situation at hand. We're all adults here - he or she should be able to clean up their own mess instead of being babied. Also benefits aren't the best especially if you need decent health insurance. It's a high deductible plan (pretty damn high) for single. For family, it's an even higher deductible that made me cringe. As for matching, the amount they provide isn't even standard. I would have taken stock options but even then that's a stretch.