Generally a good place to start your career, but can become restrictive fairly quickly (e.g. 3 years in)
Pros
Great training & development opportunities: the training centre at Les Fontaines is 1st class, and the range of courses available overall (both there and in the UK) is excellent. The amount of training per employee (20 days / year) is generous, and there are no qualms about sending people on external courses. You can even take time out from client work to attend pre-booked training, at the project manager's discretion. Great benefits package, salary OK: The flexible benefits package is a great bonus, very useful. Headhunters have also advised me that my salary is towards the upper end of my experience bracket, but that's after strong performance and early promotion - so it should be. But no bonus... Good work/life balance: generally hours are very reasonable, and sometimes positively relaxed. This does vary from one project to another, but the emphasis is usually on putting in enough hours to over-deliver, but not doing any more than that just for the sake of clocking up face time.
Cons
No bonus until you reach Senior Consultant: This is particularly frustrating, and makes junior employees feel less valued. Silo mentality which means some teams in particular feel restrictive: The business isn't joined up, so it's not easy to move around within the business. A missed opportunity for them, because it would encourage useful knowledge-transfer, but also limiting from an employee perspective. 2nd / Economy class travel at almost all times for almost all staff: Again, makes you feel less valued. A one-size-fits-all measure that was implemented to curb the excesses / abuses of a few.
