Pros
- Good at procurement work - Relatively less weekend work compared to other consulting firms - Training sessions
Cons
- Too political; Older partners rule the roast with an abysmally low partner to consultant ratio and you really have to suck up to be appreciated(and even then takes 15 years to make Partner out of B school, as opposed to 7-8 at Mck/BCG/Bain/Oliver Wyman etc.) - Don't even hire from the best schools like Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton etc. Quality of people is not great - thus network is low - Pathetic leadership : Most Partners literally boast on having connections with the CPO and hardly have networks with the CFO's, CEO's etc. - Every practice tends to end up doing some sort of procurement related work. If you wan't to do strategy DO NOT APPLY. It's mostly implementation based procurement (even though they aspire to become the most admired firm, with no realistic plan) - No real alumni network ; Exit options are limited ; No help from the firm for alumni connections