Vantaggi
The Firm provides ample opportunity for Training. The Firm provides ample opportunities for networking via after hours social functions. Very Talented, Technically Proficient Co-workers
Svantaggi
Difficult to obtain follow-on work once your main tasking expires. Management (Level IV and V) is not very engaged in developing new business opportunities to maintain staff employment. As a level III preparing an annual assessment on a total stranger, I feel the personnel assessment process is just Management's way of offloading one of their key tasks to lower level personnel. Having been an assessor 3 times and an assessee twice, I feel my performance was underestimated because the assessor had no clue about the real details of my job performance; likewise when I was an assessor, I felt the reviews I turned in were somewhat superficial. Not a big fan of getting paid once a month. When you spend 40 hour a week on the client site, you necesarily have a limited view of what's going on at the main office. Seems the current setup favors folks who actually have a desk at the main office. The business case requirement for promotion to Level IV is a load of baloney. Again, in my two years with the Firm, I never saw an off-site Level III get the Level IV promotion. Archaic Dress Code requirements. Professionals need not be told how to dress professionallly