Pros
- Really good people seem to work here - There are plenty of professional development opportunities - Does very interesting work for important government clients - Has a benefits portal that allows you to get discounts with some businesses - Good Christmas part (BUT Cons also refers)
Cons
- Pay is terrible, particularly when compared to the local market. - Mostly a bodyshop that posts people to Defence to earn revenue while the firm doesn't really adding any value at all. - Has stopped caring about its people. - Once upon a time it put on a great Christmas Party for its people for free. Now it makes people pay for it. Sends a pretty clear message that the firm no longer cares about its people. - Trying to grow too aggressively and all the worrying telltale signs are clear: good people are leaving, quality standards are decreasing or being compromised, can't do the small things like put on a free Christmas party for its people, not enough office space for everyone etc. - Opportunities for progression are limited and progression is still very much based on time in rank rather than a genuine meritocracy. In its efforts to grow aggressively, lateral hires are absorbing a lot of the opportunities available. - Very high-cost, which makes it expensive, which prices it out of work. - Deficient or absent leadership at many levels which doesn't really add any value. No vision. No strategy. - Really painful mandatory training about risk, security etc. - Selling work to clients is an obsession and promotions are based on ability to sell work; not leadership, not skills, not quality of work etc. - There is mass unhappiness and dissatisfaction and the partnership is either oblivious or comfortable with this. - Really ungenerous and miserly bonuses. - Poor systems.