Don't believe the recruiters when they say that you will be on 3-month projects anywhere. Most of the consultants end up staying between 6 months and 2 years on poorly resourced projects, meaning that you will be working for the same client on inane projects trying to pretend that you are adding value so that the partners can make more money.
The most backwards structured compensation package for a consultancy of its kind. So your base pay is around 20-30% less than a standard management consultancy, and they claim that this is made up by the bonus which gives you a small % (around 5-10%) of your billable hours. If you are billed out at around 80% utilisation, you might make up the difference. However, you don't get this if you're not on a billed project. Whose fault is it that you're not on a billable project? The partners because they couldn't sell projects... So they are transferring their business risk onto their consultants through this compensation structure.
You are on site between Monday and Thursday every week. This means waking up at 4am to take a flight to get you to site for 9am, and not getting home until 9pm on a Thursday night. You will spend your entire life in middle of nowhere locations (because that is where the Chartwell clients are located - yay manufacturing), "helping" people that don't want/need to be helped, and with no social life because you are away during the week and too tired at the weekends to actually spend meaningful time with your friends.
