Pros
Key aspects that I like here: 1. Freedom to find your own sweet spot and shape your career. 2. What counts the most to grow is your strong intent and initiatives to build skills and drive the project, no matter which designation you are. If you are able to show the right ownership, you will get noticed and immense opportunities open up for growth in role. 3. We can learn a lot from multi-stakeholder environment and in many cases, we are in a position to push the business to drive higher business value and free to lead it end to end. We are treated as true partners and our suggestions and recommendations count a lot unlike other vendors. 4. Focus on outcomes without being pushy on how to achieve it. There is enough flexibility for people to get their work done keeping in mind their own constraints. Even in difficult situations, we collaboratively try and solve it instead of enforcing our ways to get work done. This has been tricky but we try our best to make this our way of life. 5. I have seen some of the most internally motivated and inspiring leaders here at every level who are amazing to work with. You do not feel stressed at all and can completely trust them to handle situations. Some of them seem to care about business objectives even more than the client, which is why we have great client relationships across projects.
Cons
With great freedom, comes great responsibilities. While most of the team members realize it, some of them seem to take it for granted. Flexibility to change projects works well but only if team members understand their responsibility towards existing projects and client rapport. Hence while we are growing our employee count, it is becoming difficult to sustain the culture by hiring people who have right attitude and values. We are counting a lot on trust and accountability hence any lapse here paralyses the system. While quite a few projects have high reporting nature, there is significant business value that we can drive. However, it is difficult to explain or understand that when we only talk of advanced analytics in our external speech. Team don't feel enough value in what they are doing, while they may be bringing high business impact. It is important to make people realize the value in their everyday work else we may lose a lot of business due to disengagement and frequent change in projects.