Pros
Best people. Self motivated, very dedicated and hard working people. Great brand name to be in your resume. You can take up as many responsibilities as you wish. You will be challenged every day. Very team oriented culture. People work together to get things done rather than criticizing or playing the blame game. You will learn to multi-task, manage time efficiently, prioritize your tasks, communicate with clients, interact with different stake holders, building really great technical systems
Cons
Absolutely humiliating compensation benefits. 99% of the revenues consumed by senior management. No rewards for your superior performance. Promotions are based on number of years you stay with the firm. Most of the technologies used are outdated. Senior Management keeps brain washing the employees in the name of long term career. There is absolutely no career growth. I worked in Salt Lake City office. Most of the hires here are either consultants or new hires from local community colleges. If you are from a top ranking university, you will get into depression very soon. SLC office culture is one of the worst. No work life balance. If you don't go to office by 7 am in the morning, you will have a meeting with your manager. Average work hours are 12-14 hours everyday. No overtime pay for technology employees. Production support can keep you awake through midnight and weekends. No work flexibility as well. You will have to give 100 reasons if you chose to work from home. Every task is super critical and super sensitive. No room for mistakes. Do a small mistake and you will get criticized for that in your reviews. Deliver a mega project successfully, you will get hardly appreciated with a few good words and no other rewards. They will keep saying that bonus is a huge part of compensation benefits which is a big lie. In my course of stay at GS, bonus was either zero or negligible. They will collect all the feedback from you but will never work on them. The salary for a new hire in SLC office in technology division is $30,000 after taxes. You have to ask yourself if you want to work for 14 hours daily for this salary.