Avantages
1) Work on very interesting, challenging and important client issues and cases 2) Work with some of the premier organizations in the world - financial institutions, investors. law firms, and other professionals 3) Colleagues within AlixPartners are highly capable individuals, and generally good team players as well as strong individual contributors 4) Entrepreneurial environment encourages staff consultants to grow their own business 5) Lack of rigidity - boundaries are fluid and individuals have latitude to define roles and pursue their interests within the overall construct of the Firm's practices 5) Lack of bureaucracy
Inconvénients
1) Firm lacks some of the supporting infrastructure of larger competitors, which places somewhat more burden on the individual in developing business 2) Low leverage model sometimes results in senior consultants doing work that would be more appropriate to junior consultants in a high leverage model 3) High hurdle to becoming a partner means that many senior directors within the company are likely to remain so