Pros
- The people were the driving force in getting me to come immediately after college, and the driving force for keeping me for the last 3 years - Client-facing opportunities: definitely get real-world experiences right away as an analyst and get to develop those skills - Health insurance and 401k matching and unlimited PTO policy
Cons
-Non-transparent Exec Leadership (Healthcare) - the last round of layoffs were a shock to many folks. Some of the strongest performers in the practices were laid off, showing that management did a shear "this person is taking PTO next week and isn't on a project" and "this person is taking a 4-week recharge". Not the holistic approach that represents the transparent and wonderful culture that I thought I'd come to know -No cross-training (Healthcare related): once you're placed into a practice, you're pretty much silo'd into developing an expertise in that area. After 3 years of that, it's tough to switch out of consulting to a non-healthcare role if you kinda just fell into it right out of college (like most analysts) -Travel: Mon-Thurs every single week with a few work at home weeks out of the year takes a toll on people. They started doing some flexible Mon evening - Wed evening travel (mostly because of folks on compensatory on the projects), which is better.. -Strict "core competency" structure for development. It's pretty much a checklist of skillsets that you have to hit across the board, and even when you hit them, you may get a push back on your performance evaluation saying you were too focused on one area