Pros
Great pay, bonuses, pension plan, and health benefits. You can meet some truly wonderful people across the individual contributor track and management.
Cons
Now for the bad. I joined McM halfway through my MBA program. Because McM has so many employees at top-tier part-time MBA programs, I met a handful of them. I got mixed reviews but chose to ignore the bad reviews and leave a job where I was happy for more money. If I can summarize my thoughts after reading many of the reviews: please do yourself a favor a don't believe the ones that paint a nice picture. McM has a bizarre 'apartheid' between those in the management track (my role) and the individual contributors. Leadership says they are trying to change the culture, but it's not even remotely true. The company runs on the work individual contributors do, but they do not get any appreciation - they are just supposed to be cogs in the machine. In order to advance in your career in management, you have to be a yes man. No opinions that deviate from the infallible mouths of senior leadership are to be tolerated. If you make the mistake of contradicting the opinions of senior leadership once, it is almost impossible to get back in their good graces. Other reviews have alluded to this before, but there are weekly/periodic meetings where management in a department meets with senior leadership to review the individual contributors' work. These meetings are intended to get a pulse check on the operation and gauge the team's performance, but they are a colossal waste of time and are only an opportunity for senior leadership to share their wisdom (or lack thereof). I've seen a few reviews from folks who have drunk the kool-aid saying that only those in management that are low-performers have bad experiences at McM. In a sense, that may be true because the evaluation of your performance depends on who your manager is and the relationship you have with them. But, more accurately, it is because there is no transparency in performance standards, and no regular feedback on performance (at least in my experience). At the end of the day, we're not saving lives here. We're selling nuts and bolts. It's not rocket science, and we don't have to pretend we are an elite workforce based solely on credentials from 'elite institutions'. For those who are considering working in management at McM, reflect on these bad reviews. There are only two realistic paths at McM: - get your MBA and get out (if you make it that far) - dedicate your career to the company, play the internal politics game, and hope you have a nice nest egg at the end