Vantaggi
-This is great if you like to audit. You'll get plenty of opportunities to do so. -Work life balance is easily maintained here. -There are 1-2 excellent colleagues out of your class of 30-40 -The pay is more competitive than Big 4, but it's quite low compared to most other places AND you do not get the Big 4 brand name on your resume. I'm not recommending Big 4's assurance or advisory divisions--I don't think they're worth it at all if you're putting in their hours (you might as well pursue IB or true Management Consulting).
Svantaggi
-They tell you they do consulting--they really don't. -No one ever gets fired unless they're mentally ill; thus, you have some really unthinkably dumb superiors. UNTHINKABLY. This results in the mediocrity increasing over time as the excellent people all leave to pursue better opportunities and other future excellent people not wanting to come in due to the fact that Protiviti is getting dumber and dumber. -