Vantaggi
Lots of smart people. Project teams can be tight knit and an opportunity to work with clients in multiple industries. This is a great place to start off your career if you're looking to get into consulting or work your way into a more technology focused leadership career. BearingPoint also takes on a number of projects with clients that are in the upper tier of both the commercial and government sectors (particularly the latter) so the opportunities to work with large corporations on important initiatives is significant. BearingPoint also has a number of on-line training resources so, during any precious bench time, learning about new technologies and/or strategy topics is fairly easy.
Svantaggi
The company, like many consulting firms of it's size, tends to run itself like a human capital sweatshop. Although individual project teams can at times be close knit the company as a whole tends to have more of an industrial feel with people really being considered more work unit producers rather than true people and team members. This is really a function of a high turnover rate and the fact that the company is public so is bottom line driven and hasn't figured out how to balance being tied to Quarterly results and still embracing high performing team members with more of a "family" feel. Very few people there are "proud" to work at BearingPoint. There is also a tendency for the company to become stove-piped in that once you end up working for a particular MD (or within a given product line) it can become next to impossible to escape.
