Pros
- team and team culture (but strictly depends into which team you get into, some teams can treat their employees very badly but the job can be great and vice versa) - offices and offices location in London (2 offices - Paddington and Moorgate) - various tasks, job never gets boring - business trips within UK&I mostly, good daily allowance for food and good hotels to stay when a business trip - managers (very depends on each team, some managers are not proficient to manage and lead people) - WFH is not questioned, as long as you do your job on time
Cons
- never know which team members and what kind of manger you get, it may kill all the joy from work - can get a project with difficult and not easy going client, or difficult colleagues with non flexible mentality - too many new processes, constant improvement is good, but not in this ridiculous volume, but it should easy in the future - business trips can be very tiring on site as this is a consulting job, often people are jumping from working full week to a business trip shifts which last 12 hours 3-4 days in a row - assoc PM are expected to do lots of admin job and project management analysis and tasks, almost automation of the tools and too many excel sheets are used - it heavily depends on what Sr PM thinks of you as well which should not be the case, but unfortunately 2 Sr people opinion can be enough your manager to believe them - multitasking is considered as a must which is not good at all (scientifically proven fact) - super fast pace when everything should be done almost immediately, to set priorities and see what has to be done later requires at least 2 years of experience in the team and projects - as in any corporations, lots of ad hoc asks with short notice on top of project urgencies - way too many calls + ad hoc calls and people who lack the ability to keep to the point and finish the call early - lots of back to back calls and almost no time left to do the actual work