Director - Director The Hackett Group Employee Review

Right, how long do you have? The benchmark is aging; more importantly the IP it provides is not mined;leaders are closed to change. Consulting, they are managing to shrink in an expanding market (Europe). That takes some beating. Actually, I think they have just beaten that: when you have so many negative comments on Glassdoor and advice to treat people like people, what do you do? phone the few who are left to ask them to put a positive comment on Glassdoor, of course! Leadership is non-existent, at any level. Ethics, backbone, strategy are swear words. Career progression only lasts so much before someone higher up feels threatened. Managing directors appoint and promote their friends, irrespective of performance (fairly dismal). London used to be a cosmopolitan office; no longer. There have been several redundancies and every time it's the good guys that are culled; what is left has zero EQ or IQ but stellar PQ (political quotient): politics drives everything, more than in any other organisation (and I have seen companies from startup to 300,000 employees). Actually, that's a lie. Utilization is fairly important too. People are a line in a spreadsheet. Bonuses are opaque, when they exist, and so low it's almost an insult. But more important is the quarter end. The pressure leads to the most unethical (not to say illegal) behaviour I have ever seen.