If salary if the most important thing to you, this is your place
Pros
Great pay. Very nice benefits. Kind, supportive colleagues. Professional development opportunities exist. There seem to be opportunities to move around if you don't like your project (though I haven't explored that option yet).
Cons
Poor orientation at the regional level (it didn't exist); first week was shown to a desk and left to my own devices with no work and no real guidance. Little to no sense of community at the office. Managers and Directors seem to be overwhelmed and don't have enough time to devote to each project to foster strong, functioning teams so there are work stream bottlenecks and disconnects. High-anxiety culture is addressed via social activities and internal messaging that tries to convince staff otherwise. Work-life balance is very poor - the unsaid (but passively enforced) expectation is a 50-60 hours/week. No work from home days. Where you land on a project is based on management's decision - you're not consulted (at least, I wasn't). Like other consulting firms, the workload gap between senior consultant (SC) and manager appears to be large. What managers are expected to accomplish vs. what SCs are, is stark in many projects and does not encourage promotion. The culture is work harder, not smarter.
