Pros
Good sales regiment (plenty of training) Learn indepth finance (like a mini-CFA) Lots of young, smart, motivated people Decent starting salary (analytics) Good work/life balance (in larger offices, like NYC) Good benefits
Cons
Company as a whole has plateaued and 'sales' does not really exist Very bureaucratic, plenty of people telling you what to do Clear line between management and non-management (lots of 'private internal meetings') Salary flattens out and veterans get a sense that they are being pushed out (as nobody is ever really 'fired') Smaller offices are over engineered - smallest amount of power gets to management's teeny tiny little head 8-6pm contract typically means "7:30am - don't be the first to leave" Business model is flawed now that other firms are essentially delivering the same technology for much less