- Work life balance will be a struggle, you are expected to work 40 hours for your client at minimum which can increase based on the demands of the project and client. In addition to client work you are required to spend additional hours volunteering and contributing to internal company goals like participating in performance reviews. I felt like the higher I went up the more hours I had to work, towards the end of my time at Pariveda I was regularly working 60 hour weeks.
- Some of the pros of consulting also can be cons, for example you get lots of experience in different tech stacks and clients which is great but it requires you to frequently be out of your comfort zone each time you switch projects and you'll constantly be learning and researching to keep up, which does not contribute to your 40 hour client minimum.
- You will feel pressured to perform at your best so that your company reflects well to the client and you can get additonal work, this sometimes means you will have to work additional hours to ensure project deadlines are met and fires are extinguished if something unexpected occurs.
- You will also feel pressure to move up in the company and sitting at one position is unspokenly frowned upon, and there are no pay-increases aside from job title promotions. When I was an employee there was only one career trajectory Developer -> Manager -> Sales so if your career goals don't align with that be prepared, There were talks of changing that before I left so there might be more paths now.
