Pros
Free snacks. Free drinks. Convenient office location. Nice coworkers trapped in the same sinking ship.
Cons
This place folded like wet cardboard the second the pandemic started. Within weeks leadership was laying people off with zero severance, immediately cutting health insurance and 401(k) matches, and shuttering offices while pretending to care about employees. People who gave years to this company were tossed out like garbage during a national crisis. That tells you everything you need to know about the character of leadership.
The culture was unbelievably fake. A bunch of Northern Virginia frat boy types pretending they built some revolutionary consulting powerhouse when the entire company existed to worship Salesforce and regurgitate the same recycled implementation work over and over again. No originality. No innovation. Just Salesforce dependency disguised as “digital transformation.”
If you were not part of the white suburban Republican family mold, good luck fitting in. This place loved a very specific type of person and it showed constantly. The same personalities got promoted, protected, and celebrated while everyone else was expected to smile politely and assimilate. The culture felt less like a professional workplace and more like a country club for bland corporate clones.
Management constantly inserted themselves into employees’ personal lives and expected people to treat the company like a lifestyle cult. Bonuses were tied to jumping through hoops outside your actual job duties. Certifications. Volunteer events. Internal politics. Interviewing candidates. Endless performative nonsense. Heaven forbid someone had children, burnout, or a life outside work.
The pay was embarrassing considering the expectations. Managers with years of experience and piles of certifications making salaries that would be laughable at real consulting firms. Leadership acted like employees should feel grateful for the privilege of overworking themselves for mediocre compensation.
And the politics were brutal. If the wrong manager disliked you for five minutes, your career was basically over. Tiny company mentality with huge egos and zero support. People were quietly benched and discarded while leadership played favorites and protected the inner circle.
The funniest part is that the company eventually sold itself off anyway. After years of pretending to be some elite independent consultancy, they became exactly what they always were: a Salesforce accessory with a superiority complex.