Pros
Some of the client work is interesting and there is an opportunity to learn skills and pad your resume.
Cons
Once you spend a year or so here you realize that the main problem is the senior leadership. Most of them have been here since the company was much smaller and were not hired into their role with a proven track record of leading public companies (which let’s face it we are now). They have absolutely no qualifications for the role and are making it up as they go along. As such, the company has no direction. Every 3 months we get a new strategic initiative announced. When questioned 1:1, senior leaders often are unable to speak to any meaningful detail about this strategy. The c suite pretends they’re on the cutting edge of digital transformation when in fact they’re just parroting buzzwords and trying to ride industry trends. Promotion is not meritocratic but linked to whoever can suck up the most to the longtime leaders. How is anyone with any talent hired into this organization supposed to respect people with no ability who are for some reason leading them? Quality of work is unsurprisingly suffering as a result. Feels like this was a company started by engineers that became successful because of the quality of their work and used to attract top talent because of its great culture. That culture has now been ruined by an acquisition, layoffs, and the general tone deaf inability of the c suite to do anything about the fact that most of the employees distrust and dislike them. They ask for critical feedback of their leadership but don’t provide anonymous channels to do so besides a suggestions box that nobody reads, or take any action to do anything about the issues brought up. This contributes to the general sense of feeling like you’re being constantly lied to by leadership and have to maintain a facade of being satisfied at your job.