Pros: free wine, cheese, lunch from vendors
Cons: work horses, cheap, scapegoats/blaming
If you put in hard work, it will hardly be noticed or acknowledged at this firm. The reason they are known to be a great company is that their marketing department covers up the bad press & if you are still in school & interning for them, they treat the interns like royalty, so they will go back and tell their classmates about how great the firm is,
– more... but, in reality, they don't help people advance or show appreciation for their hard work. They want either the cheapest employees or else someone who has Harvard, Yale, or Stanford on their resume so they can brag to clients, even if these individuals experienced inflated grades and may not produce the greatest, most efficient work output.
You will be getting paid for little and expected to work overtime without any advanced notice. Upper management will use the lower level employees as scapegoats, if they do a good job managing and don't make high enough profit margins. Likely, if you are not upper management you will be laid off. Daily you will see new faces in the office, new employees aren't welcomed as the current staff sees them as a threat to their jobs. – less