Great promise, great on paper... sloppy in real life - Associate Kearney Employee Review

3.0
May 5, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The people at ATK are by far some of the best at what they do... the best part? They don't brag about it and they are always willing to help you out, all the way from Senior Partners to BAs.

Cons

Work life balance... despite recent initiatives to improve it, this really comes down to the Manager and Principal that you have for each project, as they set the tone for the balance. If they don't work on balancing themselves, don't expect that to happen to you.

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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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