Pros
- Stimulating job. - Opportunity to meet with companies across the world in all kinds of industries. - Being paid to think. - Tremendous variety of work: writing; speaking; media interviews; quant analysis; travel; etc. etc. - Interesting & smart colleagues.
Cons
- High pressure, with just brief relief at each quarter start. - Unpredictable client demands makes planning any social life impossible. - Quarterly targets, including high $ consultancy targets for analysts that are also expected to deliver research reports for the subscription/syndicated offering. - Out of touch senior management. - Increasingly, US-based and US-focused decision making. This damages Forrester's ability to compete outside the US. - Highly hierarchical management culture that encourages only good news to go upward. - Large company culture, but deludes itself that it still has a small company culture. - Research is usually not peer reviewed and discussed, often only a single editor reviews an analysts' work. Why? Analysts and other research staff are too busy meeting consultancy $ targets...
