Pros
1) Friendly, eager, and knowledgeable people at Project level and below - a fun-loving group that sticks together due to their common experience of not being treated very well by Partnership. 2) Diversity of projects if you can get your foot in the door of the managing person. 3) Flexible schedule, telecommuting is allowed at times. 4) Convenient office locations. 5) Overall knowledge base is good. 6) Gain some experience here (2 years if you can stand it), then take it to a company that will value this experience.
Cons
1) Pay is very low (below industry standard), raises are difficult to get, bonuses are promised but rarely materialize due to that ever-evasive bonus pool. 2) When bonuses do materialize, they fall far short of compensating for the overtime and personal time you have invested in the work. 3) There are training opportunities (some are MANDATORY), but expect to complete those on your own time or else it will count against your 100% billability goal. 4) HIGH turnover (at Staff, Project, and even Senior levels) and a Partnership that refuses to see this as an indication of trouble: "don't like it, there's the door." 5) Difficulty in getting into diverse project work due to staffing shortages - people leaving in droves means somebody has to take up the slack for the repetitive menial tasks; guess who that's going to be? 6) Insufficient time given to complete tasks: not only is everything due "yesterday", PICs will allow you 4 billable hours to complete a task that will take you 8 hours to complete - they are watching their bottom line and ensuring their bonus, not yours. 7) Very poor professional development tools, and little to no mentoring of employees, unless you are very lucky to have a Partner who will make himself available to you (very rare). 8) Minimal US holidays and sick days - expect to use vacation days if your kids are sick or have a school holiday; AND using these counts against your billable goal! Vacation time is average, but using these ALSO counts against your billable goal! 9) Little to no training for the basic office management tools (GMS, Workday, ECS, and so forth). 10) Little opportunity for advancement from within - they go outside to fill Senior level and higher positions. 11) 100% billable goal makes this company a SWEATSHOP consultancy, where people are consistently working 50+ hours for a salary calculated based on 40-hour work weeks. 12) Leading sustainability consultancy?!! Not even close. 13) Buzz words and slogans do not translate to action. 14) Very low morale; half of the people who were here when I started have left; people feel undervalued, disrespected, ignored or unappreciated. 15) Mistrust of Partnership, no transparency.