You'll know your place very quickly if you sign-on full-time; management is extremely exclusive & rolls its eyes when people speak up about concerns or ideas for improvement. For a consulting firm, this place needs to hire a retention specialist. Little to no support staff, which means that many of your normal working hours are spent doing things that require very little gray matter...which makes your nights unnecessarily long. HR is an absolute disaster...if you aren't in the clique, they will make jokes at your expense. It's uncommonly unprofessional for the industry. Your hours will be long & you'll feel spread quite thin, but don't complain about it...especially not to your manager, who is likely at a customer lunch or off to his/her vacation home. I recommend taking an offer with one of the bigger firms - you'll benefit from the structure of a well-run company & have more opportunities in the long run...unless you happen to be related to someone already at Parthenon.
