Pros
The benefits are decent and lower-level staff are extremely skilled and talented.
Cons
While the firm has forward thinking core values, I found that in the day-to-day work, the partners in advisory do not actually follow them. I’ve seen blatant sexism and nepotism and indirect racism. It seems like upper leadership is just an old school “old boys club.” The culture at the firm does not value its employees. They treat people like they are a replaceable cog and they would definitely choose to pay someone less to do your job. At the beginning of the pandemic, advisory was laying people off but claiming it was performance. Which in it of itself is questionable in terms of ethics. One team lost only women and over half were women of color. I would not recommend anyone work here and I would specifically tell women to avoid the firm.