Opportunities for juniors, but poor pay and management issues
Pros
- Great place to start at a junior level, with lots of opportunity to focus on a particular industry or explore across industries. - Positive and friendly culture at a project level (broadly speaking). - CEO seems like a nice guy who wants to do good (rare in the tech world). He hasn't always been successful driving culture internally, but the company has grown over the years, so he's clearly doing something right. - Hybrid work culture with a fair amount of flexibility (contingent on your team lead, of course). - If you're smart about how you work and produce results, you frankly don't need to work that hard. - Lots of opportunity to work across cultures and countries.
Cons
- No longer fully remote-friendly. This was probably inevitable in the current environment, but you won't progress in your career as a remote worker if they hire you at all now. - Pay isn't great, particularly for junior staff. It's an unfortunate reality in the consulting world at scale, where the business model often involves pitching with senior people and then swapping them out for junior folks to get good margins. - Monocultural leadership at the executive and director levels in the US (Europe is a different beast). It's largely Indian (Hindi) men at these levels. They have brought on a few older white dudes in recent years. They have the right credentials, but I found everyone of them totally unimpressive; buzzword execs.It seemed like the hires were an acknowledgement of the need to respond to the bigoted turns the American technology space has taken in recent years. The few women in senior leadership roles, however, I mostly found to be extremely talented and sharp. - Sales team in the US is a mess, it's been a mess for years. I wasn't in sales, but the pipelines seem totally broken and teams have to fight for their own projects with no sales support. Many sales people will leverage that desperation to pit directors against each other to get what they want. - Director level people in the org are almost entirely untrustworthy and completely self-interested (with a few notable exceptions, of course). They fight over scraps rather than working together because they fight over project ownership so they can get their margins. They are penny-wise and pound-foolish. I heard they are doing a re-org now that may get rid of a number of these folks, but I also assume it will entrench and give power to some of the worst folks stuck in the late 80s/early 90s. - Executive leadership do seem like nice people, but clearly have no vision for how to engage in business in the US in the current market. Tbf, few likely do, it's a mess here these days. - HR is totally untrustworthy. This is true in every org, particularly large ones, but you must be care with them. I've seen them do any number of illegal things over the years, but I will assume it's because the US legal team is a joke. They have looked me in the eyes, smiling, and provably lied to my face. - Severance is not a legal right, of course, but they give you two weeks severance no matter how long you've been at the company and what you've accomplished; at least, for people below Director level.
