Pros
Friday pizza day is apparently a pro.
Cons
If you want to be overworked this is the place for you. I started as a consultant and was given excuses for not being promoted after clearly performing at 2 levels above me. Once I got promoted, they didn't adjust my salary to what other employees were making. I was actually intimidated when I mentioned I knew others salaries. After this, I had to get another job offer and stayed on board because of the work I was doing. They offered me a retention bonus and another slight bump. I wanted to begin working remotely and was shutdown. I told leadership I made a lot of sacrifices and they said "what sacrifices" and instead offered me ANOTHER retention bonus to stay in DC not remote because they needed me to be a leader for all the junior staff. I declined and asked for higher salary which I was denied. The next week they scheduled a call with HR for my request to work remote. Instead they made numerous allegations about me, which my manager defended me against as he was on that call. I later found out HR called his manager and asked why he was undermining them and defending me. Clearly leadership and HR were aligned to attack me during this call. If they offered me another retention bonus, I don't understand why they would have set up this call to attack me. It all went down hill from there. My dad had open heart surgery and they kept trying to make me work 50+ hours after I asked for 2 days off that week. Finally they confronted me because they had heard I had another job offer and needed to know if I was staying on the team or not and gave me a hard deadline to tell them. During our weekly calls when people announce they are leaving, they didn't even call on me to make the announcement. During my 3 years there, I have never seen them do this. I had to interrupt at the end to announce I was leaving. I asked to have a meeting with the global head before I left and he didn't respond to my texts or emails instead asking his COO (which is his glorified assistant) to email me asking what I wanted. The global head is someone who I travelled with numerous times, went out to dinner, was invited to their home, and had very personal conversations with. I couldn't believe who disrespectful this was. It's important to note that While I was at FTI I worked on almost all our confidential cases and grew the internal processes for the team, yet none of this was recognized. I worked almost daily with leadership. For them to do this blows my mind and shows they are willing to use you and throw you to the side. I had numerous personal conversations with leadership where they called me "gearqueer" and told me to go to a strip club to stop thinking about wanting to move out of DC. I've never worked for worse people in my life and I feel sorry for anyone who still works there because there's a ton of wonderful people on the team. The global head uses fear against his employees as a display of power. Note this is on the cybersecurity them.
