Excellent place to work in many ways, but you have to be a Type A
Pros
- great pay - amazing benefits - smart coworkers - a lot of internal opportunities - creme de la creme client base - innovative and progressive - approachable partners - invest heavily in their people, especially the associates and seniors - hire a lot of people from industry (bringing in deep subject matter expertise)
Cons
- very political - the same smart coworkers and extremely competitive (don't really feel a "team" approach--at the manager plus level) - say they'll adjust your business dev goals (sales) based on utilization, not true - partners and leadership say there are paths other than partner, but firm still views those who aren't dead set on being partner as lower performers (despite the fact that they hire lots of people from industry whose end-all-be-all is not tied to being a partner)