Pros
Fancy perks, foreign vacations, lots of client money to blow up on 'field' research, lots of time to pursue made up projects and then find someone to sell that to as research
Cons
Hideously political organisation. When I joined, I was taken to a corner by individual staff members and quickly made aware of what not to say to who, who is to be treated better than whom and how to behave like a 'flamingo'. It's a very delusional organisation that actually thinks what it does is research, and as someone who has done research, actual research for a long time, their methodologies were absolutely ridiculous. They overcharge clients to appear as though they are doing something monumental, but they are completely unequipped to handle even basic research as 90% of the staff are from advertising backgrounds with no academic knowledge or idea of what research looks like. The entire organisation is built on googling things, making powerpoint presentations and fooling companies into buying their research. The amount of unethical work that goes on here is unparalleled, and I have worked at some terrible places but this one really takes the cake. I was asked to 'pad out' presentations to reach a certain number of slides so the client thinks they get their money's worth. The country heads are awful people who create an atmosphere of celebrity around them though they are actually just junkies who throw around a terrible attitude and make people feel afraid of them. The culture is horrible, everyone hates everyone yet pretends to be best friends, people cry because of work stress all the time, working weekends and working until the morning hours is completely standard, people are always backstabbing each other to get promotions and juicy projects and I wouldn't recommend it to my enemy.