Pros
The management that began their career with the legacy Stockamp practice is doing their best to maintain the culture that made that organization so successful. - Strong training and development both institutionally and from individual supervisors. - Meaningful and consistent feedback. - Opportunity to supervise others at a very early stage in your career. - Opportunity to travel to exciting places if you are lucky enough. - Great exposure to enterprise management software solutions if you are lucky enough to be assigned to a legacy Stockamp solution group. - Young vibrant culture on most project teams. - Make life long friends that are smarter than everyone else you know.
Cons
The Ex-Arthur Andersen partners that comprise Huron and the legacy Wellspring practice are applying the soul-crushing management practices that make management consulting a death march. - Your experience is 100% dependent upon the solution group you are placed in. There appears to be little thought given to how these placements are determined. New hires regardless of background are all considered to be homogeneous embryos. - Huron wants specialists not generalists. If you are an inquisitive, adaptive, and creative individual (read: a CONSULTANT), you will be bored after your second project. - The travel, like with most consulting firms, will wear everyone down over time. Much of this is out of Huron's control as client expectation often drives the often unnecessary presence on site. - Poor handoffs from the sales team to the delivery team often result in tremendous re-work and team dissatisfaction. - Some people get promoted that should never have even gotten through the door. Because they miss so badly on experienced hires, they try to compensate by growing from within whenever possible. This can often lead to people with Asperger's leading teams of 10 or more people. That's not to say there aren't some brilliant managers, but its 50/50 whether you get a star or a nincompoop.