Pros
became good at communication and soft skills esp slide making and crafting emails learnt office politics and importance of it for career growth collaborative culture is passed on by Kellogg professors is awesome
Cons
1. In an effort to grow faster new managers/consultants are hired from the industry but often they bring their own baggage (kissing up and crapping down) from previous jobs. Even hiring one wrong fit at senior level screws many junior team members who may actually have stayed at ZS 2. Billing rates are insanely high compared to normal IT companies. People get over this by working 80 hrs but billing only 40hrs. 3. Partners have become lazy and usually keep high performing managers under them who work like slaves in hopes of becoming partner. Bar for making partner keeps increasing every year. Managers are too hard on teams since they think they put through this and its normal 4. I miss the ZS where transparency was encouraged . It has now become a political place