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- the place has has a tremendous culture historically and the impact and results still show, albeit much lower than earlier. This is the good part
- some teams have really nice seniors like corp team which flows a sense of calmness
- senior folks are here as retirement homes and hence their hunger to get in more work and do more work is limited. This hurts at times because lower work and hence more non billables
- compensation, firm management etc is decided solely by the old man, no matter what they keep saying. They made a couple of senior folks incharge but he took back decision making the min he didn't like something. So that's à battle you can't win - and everyone will agree with you on this internally but still nothing will change.
- the tax hit is pretty real.
So while the culture is good (which is what you'll hear of a lot from others) , the money on paper is good (not the post tax stuff) - there are enough red flags which you should consider - most important being lack of transparency and fairness which starts pinching more and more as you get even slightly senior.