Pros
- Highly impactful projects. Board and CEO level access to high impact projects. - Perception with clients is that a "top-tier" firm tells us what to do and leaves, AlixPartners will tell us what to do - then do it. - Firm is growing fast fast fast. Turning down work because we just down have available people. - Perceived "higher compensation" is more a function of upside-down pyramid design of firm. The design of the firm is to have lots of experienced/senior director-level consultants. Very few, fresh out of B-school cadets. The result is high-impact work that generates significant results. Great if you're a seasoned consultant. Not the place to be if you don't have many years of experience under your belt and need training. - Strength of the firm (by design) is the director level. Most of the directors at the firm would be partners in other firms or senior executives in industry
Cons
- Awesome firm if you're a white male, below-par to terrible if you're not - Partner = sells work, nothing else. Firm completely lacks a 360 review process. Partners esentially have zero incentive to develop people or even be a decent human being. - Work-life balance is non-existent. Regional staffing, weekends, or family time mean nothing to the firm. - Titles are not uniform across the firm. In general, a director in TRS or EI is light-years more seasoned and valuable to a client than their counterpart in IMS or FAS. - Most partners are actually terrible at delivering work. Their job (by design) is to sell.