If you are competent - stay far away - Principal Korn Ferry Employee Review

1.0
Dec 14, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fully remote, IP is strong, clients are great

Cons

In L&PD, everything is dysfunctional. Partners sell things they don’t know how to staff. Extreme mismatch between the skills needed to deliver work and who KF hires. Clients are constantly frustrated. PMO has very few competent PMs, and the “senior PMs” are a bunch of mean girls. Impossible to get them to do their jobs well. Zero accountability anywhere. Loyalty to a partner will get you farther than being skilled. If you care about doing good work, being challenged, and treated fairly - Korn Ferry is not for you.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Work from home gives flexibility, time off is good.

Cons

No raises ever, bonuses are not a motivator nor an indicator of the work you do. No one seems to know why you receive the bonus you do, it is just from a spreadsheet handed to your direct manager who apparently has no influence in the decision. Raises never happen and no one can answer if they are coming or not—you just never get one.

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