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Damien O'Brien
Former Employee – worked at Egon Zehnder full-time for more than a year
Pros – Very smart people at the firm. The consultants are very collaborative and work hard to educate researchers on the search process
Cons – They work hard and cut support staff too quickly, which means the workload is always high.The global nature of the firm of leads to late night/very early morning calls.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-04-21 20:19 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Egon Zehnder full-time
Pros – Work/Life balance. Seniour managemnet people.
Cons – Same job, same rutine processes
Advice to Senior Management – Engage analysts more to the consulting process
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-04-17 04:49 PDT
Former Employee – worked at Egon Zehnder full-time for less than a year
Pros – centralized location office with a resourceful pantry
Cons – rubbish colleagues, no one is working but pretend working all day long
2013-05-10 02:46 PDT
Former Employee – worked at Egon Zehnder full-time for less than a year
Pros – relax atmosphere at work, not much demanding work
Cons – low salary, work gets boring afet some time.
Advice to Senior Management – salary revision, promotion
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
2013-03-16 11:47 PDT
Former Employee – worked at Egon Zehnder full-time for less than a year
Pros – Very friendly environment
Low Work Pressure
No Overtime required
Cons – Monotonous work
No incentives and low in hand package
Advice to Senior Management – Please provide some incentive based work it will help employees to gain more interest in company.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-01-13 08:15 PST
Current Employee – been working at Egon Zehnder full-time for more than a year
Pros – Calm place
Good benefits
Chance to talk to very senior people
Cons – Boring work
People are very oldfashioned
Not a chance to grow. Listen well, NOT A CHANCE!!
Advice to Senior Management – Please, listen to what people say about you. It is true.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
2013-01-02 13:08 PST
Former Employee – worked at Egon Zehnder full-time
Pros – If you want excellent benefits and great pay then this place is for you.
Cons – They don't usually promote employee's and tend to throw people under the bus. This company has tons of money hungry high management working for them.
Advice to Senior Management – Keep yours ears open and listen to what's going around the office. It's usually true and shouldn't be ignored.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
2012-12-06 13:28 PST
Current Employee – been working at Egon Zehnder as an intern for less than a year
Pros – Good pay and benefits, including long vacations. Good opportunities to meet people in other places as well.
Cons – Boring job, boring people....no opportunities for advancement. People who have been there for 15 years do the same things you do as an intern.
Advice to Senior Management – Add more variety to the work?
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
2012-10-11 08:14 PDT
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Current Employee – been working at Egon Zehnder full-time
Pros – good place to work, mnc, package
Cons – need highly adopted skills in evey field
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2012-07-09 18:15 PDT
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Former Employee – worked at Egon Zehnder full-time for less than a year
Pros – There are Team Leaders, Managers, VPs but none of them would treat you as a BOSS. It's a very transparent organization.
Cons – work may be a little monotonus
Advice to Senior Management – Do not just celebrate laxmi pooja, dashahra, holi and christmas but also go for Eid. :-)
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2012-06-09 00:50 PDT
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