Pros
Hmm... you're not a homeless drug addict like half of Manchester sleeping in the streets.
Cons
The absolute worst - not sure how this place is still in business. Total Hype. Every negative review you will read on this site is true and then some. The positive ones not so much. They actually recruited and word has it incentivized employees that they thought were camp followers to write half the positive reviews on this website when they "revamped" the company and finally rebuilt their website because they were so desperate to stop the bleeding. If you check the dates on here you will see a spike in positive reviews around 2017-2018, this was part of that pathetic effort. Endless condescending and egotistical meetings that are poorly run and never go anywhere, where everyone tries to prove they are the smartest person in the room. Half the time people are talking about TV or Football before anything ever gets done. Interns and employees are constantly on their phones and on the internet. Productivity is probably around 10%-20% if that. Nepotism is rampant. Probably because it's one of the only avenues they have left to get someone with a pulse in a seat that can be billed to the client. HR hires their own children basically as a paid babysitting operation. Many affirmative action hires as well for the tax incentives. Becareful to read the fine print on the 401k. If you don't finish out the year they can let you go on Dec 31st and they don't have to pay in for the entire year prior, but they don't tell you that in the beginning. Nice little nugget they slipped in the fine print of the employee agreement. Projects were constantly running over budget and schedule ensuring the hook is set even deeper in the client and more money that can be bilked out of the client before they wise up enough to cut their losses. This is basically the equivalent of the Nigerian Money Scam on an industrial/corporate scale. Clients and employees were fleeing as fast as they could get new ones on board. They promise the moon and rarely if ever deliver. Success rate on projects has to be less than 5-10%. Be ready to be driven in to the ground, worked excessively while being disrespected and never see your work come to fruition or the market. Projects are endlessly in development and prototype phase until it's too late and they have to try to release it as a "final product" only to inevitably get kicked back because of irrelevance, failures, and poor performance. Why a client would ever hire this company to "innovate" is beyond me but I guess there aren't many options and they don't see or know how the sausage is being made or how their money is being squandered. The PM's and upper management are basically in self preservation mode and have been there forever with no hope or opportunity to escape. They will do anything to pass the buck and save their hide and keep the client on the hook when their bloated overly ambitious poorly organized phony projects never come to fruition. Basically this place is a patent farm that uses clients budgets to develop "technologies" that they end up owning after never delivering a finished product, that can then license back to the same or other industries. Be ready to sign over any inventions you come up with to them forever with no additional form of compensation. Insurance is typical super high deductible catastrophic coverage. Basically can't use it until you pay lots of $$$ out of pocket. Might as well self insure and pay out of pocket if/when you need too. Get ready to "change the world" and work on projects that "help people" (a common refrain you will hear constantly while you are there) by developing overly complicated machines that of course utilized their patented technologies and do not cure anyone of anything but only treat their symptoms to no end. Most of the conditions they are attempting to address are ailments that can be addressed with diet, exercise and lifestyle adjustments. That wouldn't allow the clients to sell the insurance companies a health droid that the patient needs to be hooked up to 24/7 to survive though.