Pros
- There is a ton of work life balance opportunities at this company. If you have a doctors appointment you just block your calendar off, go, and makeup the hours later. No PTO needed which is really nice -The coworkers in the Cleveland office are second to none, amazing level 1s and 2s here to socialize with.
Cons
- They have a college development program called Mars Tennis Team. This program has you reading mandatory books in your free time and if you don’t you get a passive aggressive message from the program lead stating “if your practice lead asked me how you were doing in MTT i don’t know what I would say”. Even better the raises are tied to your participation in MTT. Promotions are handed to you at the 2 year mark regardless of job performance. They give you 2 billable hours a week for this work when there is 5-6 hours of work a week to actually do. You are mandated to get all the work done which is Ted talks, writing about how you feel, and nothing applicable to your job - promotions and raises are not given in a way that is conducive to growing talent. Their practices in this department see the majority of level 1s leaving because they are over worked and under paid. If you have two people, 1 person is billing 40-43 hours per week to clients, project workload is that of a senior associate or manager, pursuing a ton of certifications this person will be promoted and given the same raises as the 2nd person who only bills 20 hours per week, and is not meeting expectations on other projects. - graduate education is not respected at this institution because one higher up at the company does not have any college education. Meaning someone with a masters degree in STEM is paid the exact same as someone with an associates or bachelors degree in English. They are placed on the same career track as the less educated people. - if you are in analytics and analytics alone you don’t get to work from home even though a flexible work policy is sold to you. You get actively yelled at when you aren’t in the office on Fridays when every single other department has 0 people showing up. You are told it is the rule for the company but only the analytics department must follow this rule - they preach that your career is yours to pave how you want, but when you ask for new opportunities you are ignored. During my exit interview I was asked why I didn’t voice my desire to branch out, which I had many times so I supplied dates + times of me asking to do so to refute this and nothing was said. - Upper management is extremely rude to level 1s that leave the company for promotions and raises. This comes with very passive aggressive comments from the practice lead as well as then actively talking badly about your new job, and through experience this has happened many times to others.