The attire at the company is business professional. We do get casual Friday which is really nice. During the summer, we get to wear business casual around the office. I think this is because of the crazy heat over here. Just do what everyone else is wearing and you'll be fine.

I work an average of about 55 hours a week. This greatly varies though. I'll find myself working 45 hours one week and the 80 hours the next week. However, being staffed on hour-intensive projects are rare, and you'll find yourself working the 50 hour a week projects more often.

Work hours are 8:30am to 6pm. Even if you aren't staffed on a project, you are required to be in at the office. When you are staffed on a project, you are expected to stay as late as your entire team. When deadlines are coming up, you will stay at the office until 10pm easily. You won't work weekends unless there are deadlines coming up, and the managers do a great job in giving you a work/life balance.

Promotions at Putnam are taken very seriously. You must earn the trust and respect of everyone you work with in order to get the promotion. On average, an Analyst will be promoted to Associate within a year. From Associate, it takes about two years to make it to Senior Associate. The majority of the Consultants have an MBA; however, you can make it to Consultant without having an MBA.

In 2004, I was hired as a Senior Associate Consultant and received 70K and 20K in bonus.

We don't travel much here in this company. We're have one long trip about once or twice a month to meet with a client, but other than that, it pretty office oriented. The trips usually last a day, and I'm always able to get back to my place before the night ends.

You will get some training as a new Associate but the bulk of it will be on the job training. We are worked hard, and consistently work on two projects at the same time. This can be somewhat hectic, but it really give you some great experience on multi-tasking and managing your time effectively. Each project is about three months and there are about 4-5 people on a team: Partner, Consultant, and 2-3 Analysts or Associates.