Pros
- Decent salary if you negociate at hire or just during the acquisition - Entrepreneurial "get it done" culture - Professional Services consultants get quarterly bonuses - Virtual office (Work from home) is a real possibility for most PS and sales consultants - Discounted share buying plan - Clean offices, free coffee - Most hands-on collegues are smart and passionate
Cons
- Gifts and mementos for your anniversary died since new CEO and "yes men" CA team on board; - Majority of offices are campus buildings in suburbs. If in city, parking is crazy expensive; - No pay raises except, maybe, if you have a written offer to challenge status quo; - PS get bonuses but based on overall regional organization sales. Individual performance, if you made your % of utilization is somehwat watered down to the lowest common denominator; - "Best Place to Work" mantra is a a joke. - As PS, your vacations impact your utilization & bonuses; - 3 Cloud re-orgs in 2 years. The team, in its latest incarnation although competent, is overworked, overbooked and barely able to extinguish fires; - IT simply cannot keep its head above water due to constant acquisitions, the priority being given to systems mergers; - Close to constant hiring and non bill travel budget freezes: every new financial year, during acquisitions (2-3times a year); - Fresh blood / new hires almost non existent, except for the rare competent, overworked folk coming from acquisitions. - Management based on hierarchy, all aimed at getting the best bottom line possible. No organic growth. - Internal HR is non-existent, except when it comes to layoff people. Everything else is given out to head hunter agencies. - For every acquisition, there is lots of natural attrition and all redundant services (such as IT, HR, accounting, etc.) eventually get laid off. Software engineers and hands-on consultant will leave as soon as they realize the lack of challenge and growth available. - Nonexistent growth opportunities, extreme process/workflow dashboard data amounts to manage on legacy corporate software with poor usability vs very little proper software design. - Communications are top down and stop at middle management. There is no transparency whatsoever for the hands-on people unless you make friends on cross-team projects and chit chat once in a while. - Quarterly "wrah wrah wrah" all-hands and town halls only give hands-on folk the impression of a complete reality disconnect from the CEO and "yes men" CA team