Pros
The impact of the work delivered to clients is visible and you feel like you're gaining skills that will be useful later in life. The Directors are very supportive of family life and rarely ask you to work on the weekends. The monthly in person staff meetings really helped tie everyone together with a sense of community. The client list was really top notch, and the level of senior executive client interaction was very high, even from the moment I joined the firm. The project responsibilities I was given from day one were remarkably impactful and I felt like a contributor to a client's success right away.
Kontras
The biggest issue I saw was with compensation. If you got a mid year promotion, you didn't get a pay raise until the end of the year, which was actually very disheartening. Compensation at the top level is not really known outside of the Directorship and it made it hard to know what the carrot was. There was a lot of speculation at the Associate level on salary increases and potential at the other levels, but people were very tight lipped about compensation overall. Surprisingly, for what a data driven company PRTM is, when it came to performance reviews, there was no data provided to me for why I got what I got.