Pros
Working with smart people who could easily be working somewhere else if not for the bad economy. We get free snacks. Yay for coke and peanuts. OK location unless you have to commute from anywhere except downtown SF.
Cons
Where to begin.... Terrible retention. They lose people every month or two. If you've been there a year, you're a veteran. What person with a PhD from Stanford really wants to work in market research? No direction from management. The managing director is there once every three weeks. You're told to do something but at the last minute told it's wrong. Hours are long. Don't expect to work 40 hours a week. You'll be checking emails at 10pm. Very sad working environment. No one talks in the office despite its small size. You could go all day and not hear more than 10 sentences. Extremely tight deadlines which means any event that impacts the project, even if out of your control, will be blamed on you. Except no sympathy. Training? Not in your life. Sink or swim. Many have gone down because of this. Do yourself a favor, work at ZS or Campbell Alliance. Or Accenture. Or Mckinsey. Or anyplace with a brand name which will make it the least bit more tolerable to work there.
