3.0
Dec 13, 2009
Current employee
Toronto, ON
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
* Great place to start a career * Tremendous wealth of knowledge - both people and process * Excellent clients - exposure to clients can occur fairly quickly * Merit-based promotional system
Cons
* Billable hours! (although it is a reality of the industry) * Not a good work/life balance. You're at the mercy of your clients. * Hard work is not necessarily rewarded and very often not even recognized. * Very high turnover at lower levels, so not many senior staff who worked their way through the ranks at Mercer. * Mercer focuses on the short term and loses opportunities to groom very good people into great consultants.