It is very good if you know what to expect
Pros
-Excellent to get experience in different projects, teams, technologies, even roles, but still staying with the same company. -Most of the projects and teams are very agile. -Very good to learn how to start projects and kick off teams fast. -When you are away, they are very flexible and reasonably generous in the accommodation and expenses arrangements. -They are quite reasonable and flexible to keep the work-life balance right considering many times you have to work away from home many days a week during few months. -Flat structure and people at every level is very approacable. It feels like a big family. It is the kind of company where the big boss talks to you and knows your name. -So far, every year I got a payrise (only inflation). -The office is pretty good, although many times you work in your client's office where sometimes is a bit bad, specially in government projects.
Cons
-You are supposed to work away most of the week for months if your project requires that. Till know I have been 60% of the time outside home but to be honest I like it, some other people with family usually has less percentage. -The back office does not work very well, it seems there are things nobody takes responsibility, so simple things could take ages and a few reminders to sort out. -Some people in the back office have been working for Valtech for a long time and it seems they are too comfortable doing the bare minimum. -Although they have a variety of projects with different clients and technologies. If you stick to some technologies, you tend to work in the same kind of projects, which tends to feel boring after some time. Anyway, they are OK if you want to change to another technology or different role. -We do not usually create generic solutions for similar projects. Different teams with different managers may have different ways of working, architectural approaches, it seems there is not a strategy to reuse knowledge or have a common approach, methodology. -The promotion system is a bit confusing and it is not very good if you want to stick to the technical side of consultancy. -In some projects, there are too many contractors.
