Pros
Opportunity to explore different project types. Good community engagement.
Cons
The firm went through a series of lay offs but gave individuals the same speech of "performance concerns" with no documentation to support the claim. Leadership is a lot of talk, not a lot of follow through. Leaders and managers make it seem like they are advocating for and supporting employees, but they have their own agenda and saying what makes them look good. The firm was changing the WFH flexibility from 3 days in the office to 4 - right after a firm wide culture survey, claiming they received feedback for more in-person mentorship. Very hard to believe that's true... most people don't want less flexibility in their work life and the people that prefer/want to be in the office for 4-5 days were already able to do so. Environments that foster productivity and growth don't look the same for everyone. Very disorganized and confusing process on distributing work load and keeping track of planned labor hours for projects. Each office/team has a different method which makes it very challenging when expected to work cross-offices/regionally. There's a lot of "extra-curricular" unbillable activities that have a silent expectation and judgement of attendance. Then in turn, utilization is over-scrutinized. So employees are either intended to lie and bill those unbillable activities to a project, or expected to work overtime in order to meet a projected utilization rate so that they look good as a number to leadership.
