Pros
The client portfolio. Exposure to interesting, well-known organisations makes some of the day-to-day work engaging.
Cons
Compensation is notably below market rate for the industry, and there appears to be little appetite to address this. Benchmarking your role externally will likely confirm the gap. Leadership is a significant concern. Decision-making feels opaque, and there is a persistent disconnect between management and the wider team. Communication is inconsistent at best; important updates are often poorly cascaded, leaving employees to piece together information themselves. Perhaps most frustrating is the absence of any clear strategic direction. There is no coherent vision for where the company is heading, which makes it difficult to feel genuinely invested in your work. Innovation is another area where reality falls well short of the rhetoric. Whilst it is spoken about with enthusiasm, there is no dedicated time or resource allocated to it; exploratory work is simply bolted onto existing projects and expected to happen alongside day-to-day deliverables. Compounding this is a culture where failure is not tolerated, which means employees are unlikely to take the creative risks that genuine innovation requires. The result is an environment where new ideas are quietly discouraged, regardless of what is said in all-hands meetings.