Pros
There are a lot of good, qualified, and invested people doing quality work here on both technical and project management sides. Management seems pretty committed to providing a positive environment for workers. There's pretty decent opportunity to evolve and change your role as you learn new things and become exposed to different responsibilities. Working in downtown Oakland is pretty cool. From what I saw, there was a lot of freedom to have your own work/life balance
Cons
Has a pretty corporate feel even for all the effort to make it not feel that way. Not a lot workplace culture developed. Biggest con for me (as a technical person) was being drawn into projects where my role was initially scoped as technical/analytical support, but ending up having to do all manner of handling client relationships, writing memos, etc. This was a big turnoff for me, since context switching was often whiplash-inducing. In general having an hours-based consulting model for the parts of my work that were actually technical also got frustrating, since it typically prevents you from tackling big projects holistically and forces you to focus only on being able to execute modular chunks, each of which has to justify itself to the client. (This is probably relevant to consulting in general, though) There were occasional last minute "did I not tell you I have this thing due to a client tomorrow? Well I have this thing due to a client tomorrow and you're the only person who can help me do it. So get me this thing done by the end of today oh and by the way you can only bill one hour to it" situations which are also very unpleasant and stressful, especially when requested at 8pm. It's a bit disingenuous to say there's a no limit vacation policy and also have a soft billable hours target for departments that's just over 40hrs/week for 50 weeks/year
