Pros
Each office has a lot of autonomy, so as a lower level employee, it means less corporate red tape to deal with. For a job in recruiting, this position is relatively low pressure because there is no cold-calling and because it is executive search, there are simply fewer candidates which means more time spent on research and less time just dialing.
Cons
As noted, each office is different, but a major con that I see is that all the people at director level do not work well together. This means that when offices try to share work, there is a lack of communication and this affects my ability to do a good job in search. Giving each office so much autonomy is great in many ways, but I think it hurts the client's outcome sometimes because the directors who work together don't really work together well. As far as pay goes, I am paid far my market value. This may hurt Stanton Chase in the long run - it promotes to high turnover and low satisfaction. I saw another review that said the same thing - some employees spend their time working for a managing partner's side business. This harms office productivity and makes staff look bad to other managing partners.