Excellent training ground to learn business fundamentals and gain exposure to multiple industries
Pros
- Access to business executives - Very strong training program: analytics, presenting, slide writing, managing client relationships - Consistent, 360 feedback culture - Typical 2-year track to move to next level - Rigorous, clear, and common job reviews provided during / after each project - Exposure to many different industries and business functions - Excellent comp and benefits, especially at the lower levels in comparison with similar opportunities
Cons
- Typically extensive travel - Long hours (always 60 hours+ per week) - Many short projects (<5 weeks), which are exhausting "sprints" and often prevent the development of strong client relationships or team bonding - Forced rotation among managers can mean exposure to great managers and poor managers with little to no choice - Rotation among projects & managers requires consistent getting up to speed on managers' styles; may not click and can lead to poor reviews - Some offices have fewer long-term or large clients, forcing a very exhausting, consistent sales culture - Interview process only moderately successful at forecasting employee performance - Verbal focus on work-life balance, but in practice, depends greatly on the client, the type of project, and most importantly your manager. Again, unusual to have <60 hour work weeks, and will generally involve travel - Some offices are very travel heavy, while others have more local work