Pros
People - everyone is pretty young and so building rapport is really easy. Most people are really kind and up for a pint after work. (Although I heard horror stories of particular managers that have been there forever who were infamous for micromanaging) Useful transferable skills - undeniably you gain a tonne of transferable skills (I think a lot of people don’t realise this once they get irritated by the job). You get experience in recruitment, sales, cold calling, negotiation, stakeholder management, inbox management and this gave me so many options for examples when interviewing for my role after proSapient. Nice office space and location in London
Cons
High pressure environment - pointless metrics that have no relation to effort put in, these change so frequently that it’s hard to keep up, if you don’t have a sympathetic manager who trusts that you are doing your best and defends you, you are utterly screwed! Expected to work long hours - I was pretty determined to not work super late as otherwise commuting days could end up being 12+ hours long, there is also NO flexibility in start and end time which is a bit ridiculous considering our stakeholders were all based in different time zones!! Pay very poor and base salary - this was never increased over the course of several years apart from promotion; there is no regular pay review procedure!! Commission is SO reliant on clients and does not correlate to effort put in, this leads to dedicated people with good input metrics being threatened with PIPs (not okay!!) Unknown industry - Whilst great at developing new transferable skills you will spend every interview after explaining what proSapient is and in my experience a lot of companies just think it’s another generic tech startup. This makes it tricky to prove how hardworking and successful you actually are!!