Pros
Be very clear in your career objectives, research what being a consultant means and decide from there whether you'd like to invest your time in this. They like to target Software Engineers, Comp Sci graduates, and other Engineering disciplines in their job postings. If your interests don't lie within the business/softskills side of things, evaluate your decision carefully. They might title their job postings as "Software Developer" or "Computer Science Consultant". But your title will be Enterprise Marketing Consultant. -Despite any seemingly contradictory cons listed below, the people who do stick around are great, the company knows very well the type of people they want and they show appreciation to their employees via merchandise/goodies -They try their best to integrate you to the company, but the onus is mostly on the new hire to have the right attitude/decide how much they really want to commit and learn -Annual summit in December, all expenses paid by company. Whole company travels to some hotel location in Quebec/Ontario for 3 days -Great Salary and quarterly bonus once you start on projects -Great Colleagues, smart, friendly, sociable, willing to help -Opportunities to travel, although infrequent -Young Company (~12 years old), still growing at a decent pace -Offices in Montreal, Calgary, and Toronto -Great opportunity to develop soft skills such as self-management, project management, dealing with clients and teams across different companies and with different expertise, and overall interpersonal/social skills -Team activities (albeit sometimes too many)
Cons
-Training of new consultants is incredibly sub-par -Management can be rude/and or vague with expectations or too demanding. Sometimes there is lack of communication between management personnel which wastes time or causes stress and confusion to employees or slows down their work -(For Comp Sci grads with technically inclined career aspirations) The business is very niche, you learn to use a very specific set of marketing tools. These tool specific skills aren't very useful for many careers outside Munvo. Try to get out of it all that you can. Identify transferable skills and highlight those. -They try to build team cohesion by organizing team activities within work hours which is fine, but sometimes you can't make it to the planned team activities outside work hours or simply don't want to go. Sometimes feels like a popularity contest. (Granted, it is totally reasonable for a company to measure commitment or a person's fit in any way they wish) -Relating to the above, it can feel overwhelming, sometimes you just want to leave work and not feel like work life is merging with your social/personal life