Not worth it in the long run - Manager Guidehouse Employee Review

1.0
Jul 9, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Some people are great to work with and some of the account work can be very rewarding.

Cons

This place is not only toxic but also soul sucking . Leadership is terrible. Our CEO and COO are only present to make decisions that favor Partners vs the overall company. You can't change engagements or accounts easily at all. If you are on a team with bad leadership, you are in for a highly political road. People will lie to your face and throw you under the bus every chance they get. Hours over standard are required. HR is just unhelpful on a good day. Recruiting is constantly bringing in new people only to have them leave in a couple months. Training is non existent. Some of that might be fine if it wasn't for our IT systems being the most hindering part to your day. Email doesn't work, cloud doesn't work, emails can't send, emails from two weeks ago are being sent again, etc... Our IT system is literally a joke because it is so bad. Nobody understood what it would take to carve out a company. One year in, we are in a much worse place than where we started.

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Pros

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Cons

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