Avoid if you value your career. - Anonymous employee Optima Partners Employee Review

Where should I start... This is a milking business that collects amazing individuals and drains them with 100% billable work (allocation is even greater at times), with no growth or career development opportunities and absolutely zero upskilling. In departments like data science, people do not even work in their roles. PhDs, etc., (and pretty much everyone) are doing BI and extremely basic stuff, downgrading their careers. The leadership team constantly sells lies, both internally and externally, claiming they do pure innovation and state-of-the-art work, which is 100% false. It feels like they're insulting people's intelligence with such claims, especially those doing the ground work who know the reality. Similarly, in the engineering department, discrimination is a regular theme, and people mostly work either as data analysts or basic data engineers, but getting billed as senior/leads to the clients. Promotions, career growth etc are obviously internal jokes for the higher leadersip ( although recently some very decent people have been given the roles of "heads", but seems they can't do much with the culture and their limited responsibilities). If you're looking to experience gaslighting, selective memory, and nepotism, this is the place to be. If you want to be bombarded in interviews with false promises (obviously nothing in writing), only to later discover what a mistake you've made, this is the place to be. People have started jumping ship, and I don't expect it will stop anytime soon. Low team morale, and pay below the market median. There's no interesting or relevant work, and there's a blame game directed at doers when clients are not satisfied (obviously because work was never scoped properly by the directors). Directors easily get your part of the bonus while telling you we didn't meet targets in our most successful year. These are only a few reasons to avoid joining if you value your career trajectory. This is a business where contractors have been masked as full-time employees, with obviously much lower pay—simply a people-milking/allocation scheme.