Pros
The President of the company is a nice guy with an incredible amount of industry knowledge and experience Evergreen hires HR professionals without consulting experience, so it's a great foot-in-the-door opportunity to get into consulting The pay is competitive for Tallahassee and the incentive structure is generous High performance is rewarded; opportunities for growth
Cons
Not enough staff to support the workload - constantly taking on new clients even when they do not have enough staff for the current workload. No work-life balance: Leadership is not transparent about this during the interview process. If you interview - ask how many hours most consultants are working. Disorganized, lack of processes, terrible communication among leadership. The sales pitch to candidates is that they will train you to be a project management consultant in about six months. The reality is that they don't have a formal training process (or even the minimum resources) to develop new hires. You are thrown into a highly visible consulting role and literally told to "just figure it out" with very little support. Evergreen Solutions is a firm with a burnout culture. If work is your life, you'll be right at home. If you desire any semblance of work life balance, this is not the place for you. 10-12 hour days, 6-7 days per week are the norm. Very high turnover - including myself, I saw nine resignations (on a team of about 20) in less than one year. They cannot keep staff because employees are overworked and under-supported Despite numerous conversations with leadership about the problems (which they acknowledged) the general response was "That's just consulting." I resigned under the distinct impression that they know they could make changes that would improve the environment for their team, but they simply don't care to do anything about it.