Rapidly growing; demanding but meritocratic, with opportunities for fast progression given high performance culture - Business Analyst Kearney Employee Review

5.0
Jul 11, 2014
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Lots of smart people; strong opportunities for personal and career growth (requires high level of pro-activeness); generous expense policies and lots of perks (i.e. all-hands meetings in Cancun etc.); great compensation; strong culture and very likely to remain independent (unlike other similar sized firms)

Cons

Work-life balance can be difficult, especially when you are on strategy/PE projects - sourcing/ops work offers great work-life balance but is not always as interesting; some variability in talent (some projects have amazingly smart people and others less so- the shift to a high performance culture should remedy this going forward)

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

If you’re fresh out of school and don’t have a specific skill and don’t know what to do, and you’re willing to be a yes man then yes it might be a good place to figure out your next step.

Cons

- Lack of pipeline for certain practices (and they will blame that on you saying your utilization is low but there’s nothing you can do at an associate level) - Full of people that feel good about themselves but they actually knows nothing about how actual industry work - No talent - Management will give you vague feedback that you can’t act on, For example, I got asked to “elevate the deck” but when I asked is it the messaging or is it the format etc they can’t give me anything specific - The expectation on work quality is inconsistent - Some manager level people can’t do excel which is shocking - You need to be a people pleaser in order to get promoted

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