Great benefits and prestige, people management not a core competence
Pros
-Pay and Benefits are market setters and are way ahead of my previous firm -Tons of smart people there and the company has a great market reputation -Depending on your office, leadership works to have a lot of office events and foster a close atmosphere, In the smaller offices this is really effective
Cons
-Work-Life balance is just not a concern and is blown out of the water on nearly every project, red-zone reports are generated but no-one really pays attention -Culture is VERY young, so you are almost always working for people who are smart, high-achievers with no real leadership experience and, often, very low empathy. This attitude tends to apply to both team and client relations. -As a consultant and below, you're not encouraged to do anything but project work, limiting your ability to build a network outside of your project team, if on a small team or a bad project then you're going to be in a bad way very quickly. -Immense up or out pressure(especially on Project Leaders) leads to an atmosphere of extreme competition and there is a lot of back-stabbing and throwing under the bus.