Pros
The clients can be interesting. Snacks.
Cons
You are thrown into big accounts and big projects with almost no training. No work-life balance, at all. You are on call always, Colleagues are nice, and they offer to help in training but they themselves are so swamped with work they never can devote any of it to training you. Absolutely toxic people get promoted while people who value any semblance of sleep and life are shunned. It is expected, and a point of pride for many staff here, that they work at least 60 hour weeks. The pay is far below market level. Expecting anyone in the DC/NYC/Seattle area to work 60 hours a week for 47k a year is criminal. The culture talks a lot about the "Global 15" like the freshman 15 where you gain weight out of the sheer stress and inability to move or go out due to living at the office under crumbling amounts of work. Again, wildly overworked, extremely underpaid.
