Pros
Smart, driven employees; rapidly growing firm provides fantastic opportunities for career advancement and personal growth; partners and managers maintain a true open-door policy; responsibilities and promotions are given to you when you are ready for them, not when you reach a certain position or tenure; emphasis on work-life balance; firm and employees truly interested in the science underlying projects; great opportunity to learn about the global healthcare and life sciences landscape; overall fairly diverse firm
Cons
Inconvenient location (in the Boston suburbs) can make for annoying commutes and limited food/entertainment options, and the office and surrounding area can start to feel claustrophobic; a lot of lip service to the importance of feedback and transparency; unnecessarily strong drinking culture, as though adhering to the tired mantra of "work hard play hard" shared by many consulting firms somehow improves the firm's relevance or performance; homogeneous senior management (where are the women??); projects can be repetitive and limited in scope to biopharmaceutical development; turnover is getting worse