Pros
Tatum offers outstanding professional experiences, usually at the "C suite" level with companies in a variety of of industries, as well as a wide range of sizes and organizational maturities. The work is usually challenging and interesting, the clients sincerely appreciate you are helping them through whatever difficult circumstances they may be navigating, and my engagements while at Tatum were consistently very satisfying.
Cons
The firm has struggled some since its acquisition by Randstad in 2011. The corporate overhead cost allocation from Randstad that Tatum must build into its engagement pricing is crushing. Typically this overhead allocation either makes the price at which Tatum offers to provide a senior executive too far above the competition to be seriously considered, or else the portion of the engagement fee able to be paid out to the Tatum Partner doing the engagement work is significantly reduced, clearly a "lose-lose" recipe.