Avantages
If you need the experience in performing Phase I environmental site assessments, you should be at Partner for no more than a year. You will get tons of experience because you will work non-stop to reach impossible goals set by management. If you want to continue doing Phase Is after that year, the experience will help you find work in a better company that values you.
Inconvénients
If you have experience, do anything you can to avoid this hellscape. They will work you to death in a Phase I ESA sweatshop with ridiculously high revenue targets that will have you working constantly. They will not mention these targets in your interview(s) or in your offer letter; you’ll find out when an ominous email arrives from the accounting department on your first day asking “if anyone has talked to you about revenue goals”. Surprise! They will then use that revenue target as a club to constantly beat you with as you struggle to stay afloat because Partner has very high productivity demands that require you to complete far more site assessments in a month than is possible without putting in lots of extra time. The sales force seems to price projects without considering their complexity. You’ll work night and day and still be berated for not meeting your targets, yet the sales person will get credit from the client for delivering such a nice product (based upon your lost free time and thankless labor). There’s little good to say about the people that work at Partner either. The pressure seems to create a suspicious arrogance among the workers and a hazing mentality among management. It’s every man/woman for themselves and cooperation is rare. Bottom line: Partner is not a good company to work for. The pressure is relentless; the rewards are few and the management is cruel. If you can find anything better, avoid this place at all costs.