Pros
- No insurance premiums - reasonable starting salaries - paid bench - education stipend is generous, if you can get them to approve your expenses - some people in management/sales are actually really nice and are trying to be good people, they just work for a company that doesn't support/enable that
Cons
- no support from management - poor treatment of employees and customers: threatened to sue both me and my client when i left - threatened to sue me for a breach of employee agreement by going to work for my client (not technically a violation, as it's not consulting services), though other people who left at the same time to work for their clients received no such threat - bonus structure is an absolute joke - recruiters love to tout "the opportunity for a $20,000 bonus!" but you will be lucky if you get $2,500. - no support for working mothers - i had to pump in a locker room, where i got walked in on by male cleaning staff - almost no annual compensation increase, and no communication about it last year - mixed messages: consistent emails saying how well the company is doing, funding bonuses at 102%, but consultants taking salary cuts - really poor morale in the office - mandatory evening events scheduled with a week's notice - not a ton of diversity in clients, though that may be changing - even when my client manager specifically told sogeti he wanted me to take a particular training class, they said they wouldn't let me pay for it with the education stipend they talk up while recruiting you. - local and even some national leadership doesn't seem to be able to handle pressure well