Vantaggi
-Fairly generous vacation time (I started with 20 days off as a Senior Consultant). -Senior management is fairly easy to approach. -Easy to transfer between offices.
Svantaggi
Where do I begin? -People here, by and large, have no idea what they're doing. They sell work before even beginning to consider how they'll staff the project if they actually win the work. They present people as regulatory SMEs who have a cursory knowledge, at best, of what the applicable regulation entails. -You will be staffed with zero regard for your career goals or aspirations. You're a body to throw at work. -Protiviti is a bottom feeder. They will bid for and take any work in their wheelhouse, without any sort of strategic consideration. You will then work Big Four type hours without even getting a recognizable name on your resume. -Speaking of the Big Four, if you have received an offer from the Big Four and one from Protiviti, do NOT fall for Protiviti's lies regarding how they are different from the Big Four. Your experience in terms of working hours will likely be much the same, though with FAR less structure (nothing here is automated and there seem to be no policies guiding anything really) and with an unrecognizable name on your resume. -Speaking of Protiviti's name, I was told during orientation that they chose the name because it would "mean the same thing in every language." I'm not joking. Meanwhile, be prepared whenever someone asks where you work to explain that you're not mispronouncing "productivity" or "proclivity." Most of my clients routinely misspell the company's name. It's embarrassing.