Pros
Edgeworth is a great place to start your career: - You will learn many important skills, both soft skills (such as professional communications, teamwork and keeping your work organized) and hard skills (data analysis and statistical programming, which are very popular these days) - The company has an upbeat, friendly, intellectual and collegial environment (people are pleasant to work with, you will not be yelled at, but that doesn't mean there's no politics) - Bonus for working long hours - Great exit opportunities, especially top MBA programs (Kellogg, Stern, Booth and so on and so forth) - The company is growing rapidly (it's positive in a way, but also means crazy hours) - A clearly defined path of career progression
Cons
- All previous reviews regarding work-life balance are accurate; they can make you stay until midnight every single day for a month because of the demanding clients. Not recommended to people who value work-life balance, especially those with families and small kids. - Highly unpredictable schedule- you might sit around all day and they suddenly give you work at 6 and tell you it's due tonight. Hard to make personal plans for weeknights, even weekends (you might have to cancel dinner reservations and weekend trips). - Many managers are PhDs who are not experienced in managing teams and workflow. Leadership in the manager level is lacking greatly. - Inflexible management- they like to market themselves as a startup-like firm but the day-to-day management is very old-fashioned with rigid corporate rules - Lack of mentoring to junior staff- their philosophy is more like "figure it out on your own, we're all pretty busy here" - Lack of transparency and staff input in company decision making, you feel like you're not trusted by them after all