Pros
It’s a job. In a tough labor market probably better than being unemployed.
Cons
Essentially, STG is a glorified staffing agency. They offer temporary contract work (with strong emphasis on temporary), low pay, subpar benefits and false sense of job security. Meanwhile STG pockets almost half of their consultants’ earnings (bill rate vs wage), a fact they are adamant to keep under wraps. In the past, STG’s exorbitant “haircut” functioned as unemployment insurance, because all employees were retained between client’s engagements with full salary and benefits. Nowadays staying on STG’s payroll in-between projects (aka going into the DEV Center) is a disingenuous marketing ploy. Dev Center is available to few if any staffers, with little honesty about eligibility. Despite STG’s assurances that having a Career Development Plan will get you into the Dev Center, if they can’t quickly place you on another project, you will be laid off. Substantial wage disparities among peers, zero transparency on how compensation is structured or willingness to fix the problem. When STG’s salaried employees are short of 40 hours per week, STG docks their pay by switching them to hourly for that week or via forced PTO, which is unlawful. Many benefits (ex. health insurance, 401K match, etc.) have concealed caveats that render them worthless. Cushy perks for managers and a few veteran employees (not all, only the in-crowd), while rank and file staffers are nickeled-and-dimed for everything. Rife cronyism amides cliquish leadership and late founder’s family.
