Pros
- Amazing people who join the company, well done to the recruiters at Netlight. Loving, empathetic people all the way - Nice (somewhat) transparent salary model - Good overview of transition to leadership positions via so called "journeys" - Nice office location in the inner city - Good vibe overall, lot of emphasis of "young vibe", Friday bars, cool events, Summits and more. Very positive for an out going person in general. - Salary review twice a year vs standard of once a year. - Solid experience when joining out of uni - Global company, ability to (maybe) do a transfer, commute to another office
Cons
- Constantly talk about having no bosses at Netlight. What a lie! There's a strict hierarchy where especially Managers, senior managers and partners/principals make the big decisions. If they would only acknowledge this, Netlight would do much better. Of course you need to have bosses and a hierarchy in a global consultancy. Juniors can't for example fire seniors, only seniors can fire juniors. Seniors can only promote juniors, not the other way around. Business is business but for some reason Netlight keeps talking about the "no bosses setup" - dumb when it's so obvious there's a strict hierarchy - There's 100 % a lack of ''outside-knowledge'' entering the company. The majority of almost every single senior person at the Copenhagen office started in a relatively junior position meaning no external perspectives really enter the culture/view on optimizing it. There’s no external knowledge coming in, meaning management is inexperienced in managing a company and people in general. - Very ageist setup, new-hires are almost always fresh out of uni. I've never seen anyone + 35 being hired. Why? Because they are too senior and won't be interested in joining the events after work that are needed to be promoted to senior positions. Driving stuff outside of your core for example doing technical interviews, driving "welcome to level" or other NL internal stuff is 100 % needed to go to the next level, especially senior levels so you show "the netlight way". So expect overtime work if you want to be a senior at the company. Again, in many cases this is a given but Netlight refuses to acknowledge this. In general, career progression depends more on appearance, compliance with the NL way, and how well you flatter managers than on actual expertise. - General lack of transparency. They do not know how to work with career development in CPH. You are not measured against any real criteria, everything is rather more of a “feeling”. In many cases you get no concrete feedback, everything is super vague. What kind of laissez faire leadership style is that? - Very high churn rate on senior levels due to being overworked - Very little flexibility as for working from home. Which is honestly also fair given the nature of working at the client's. But don't expect to be able to work 1-2 days from home as a standard. This depends on your client - same as for working abroad while visiting friends or family, not something they offer which makes it difficult for some to continue working at Netlight. Generally, working from home is heavily frowned upon - since you ideally should be adding "value" to the vibe of the office when not at the client's. - Netlight's initial offer is ok but if you leave for the client or another consultancy/product company like I did you will most likely earn 20 % more. I don't know of anyone who went down in salary when leaving Netlight only the opposite.