Pros
Enhances your CV - allows you to say you've worked for some big logos and you can move around in there more easily than job-hopping externally.
Cons
CEO Rosaleen Blair was once asked why the company was called Alexander Mann. She answered that they wanted a name that instantly sounded like it had gravitas and credibility. That, I think, sums Alexander Mann up. It has a good brand, but behind that crisp white-collar image there's nothing really there. Getting a job with Alexander Mann is like opening an easter egg then realising the chocolate is standard fare and there's no bag of sweets inside. There isn't really a company culture - sure there are values statements but these aren't really lived out by senior management. Read the company handbook carefully and you'll see that if Alexander Mann loses the client you're contracted to then "whilst every effort will be made to redeploy you" you only get statutory redundancy pay - about £400 per year worked, no matter how long you've worked there or how strong your performance was, which isn't how good employers behave in a white-collar business in the 21st century. The business isn't a factory. Most of us were regularly massively overworked by the client (that's why they outsourced in the first place!) - ridiculously overworked - and Alexander Mann never really seemed to address this with their clients, it was something if a workhouse. And all employees said there was a strong sense of not belonging to Alexander Mann, more of belonging to your client.
