Vantaggi
Exposure to a variety of large high profile clients - great place to start your career as a junior. Lots of learning and growth. You quickly learn how to do your best with limited time and resources. You will work with some really bright, diverse minds both in the company and as clients. Potential to transfer to an overseas office if you're lucky enough to be placed with one of the few amazing managers.
Svantaggi
Leadership and company culture in Australia is very different to USA. Surprisngly low familiarity with analytics, data and statistics for non-research functions and lack of investment to improve. Compensation tragically poor unless you come in at Director level or above. Expected to be on late night and early morning calls with USA for no additional pay. Extremely cliquey and political, managers are not interested or trained in people management. It's drilled in to you that the only way you can advance is to get recognition by taking on numerous extra projects and secondments on top of your existing workload. Most of the time this results in you being permanentely responsible for these projects, your manager will shine but you won't get that promotion you were promised. Lots of informal and passive-aggressive 'managing out' to force you to quit rather than following proper HR processes: disproportionately high workloads, dicreetly limiting your resources ('"get creative" or "do the best with what you have" because your managers "hands are tied.") Recognition and career progression only applies to commercial and sales teams. HR usually comes up with a reason not to provide the benefits listed on paper.