Pros
- Almost everyone in the UK team is very nice, I’ve made some good friends from working there with whom I’m still in touch. It’s a shame you don’t see your colleagues more than once every two weeks. - There’s a lot of ownership and responsibility in the first couple of months, meaning you learn a lot. Presentation/soft skills develop a lot but after the initial steep learning curve projects become quite repetitive so development plateaus quite quickly. - Travel is hit or miss, it can be fun and if you have a routine it has benefits but it naturally has an impact on your social life due to spending 4 days a week away from home
Cons
- There’s a culture of misrepresenting experience to clients which is driven by management which isn’t great. - Pay is far below market average. In internal reviews it’s consistently rated as a core issue by consultants but SLT refuse to do anything about it - A lot of work felt very low impact/inconsequential but is treated by management as critical- think 11pm calls (which isn’t unusual by consulting standards but It’s difficult to stay motivated when those work standards are enforced for meaningless tasks) - This is subjective but spending that much time alone can be tough. Especially when many clients are in isolated/remote parts of the country, you’ll often spend the work day alone on site with the client and then alone in the hotel at night