Strategic Analytics Reviews

It's advertised as consulting like the big 5 but on my first day I had to get on the phone and call random businesses for 10 hours in loads of time zones with a list of questions. It never changed for the year and I did it 95% of the time. If you want to know how it is you can imagine a call centre run by ryanair - they cut costs everywhere and the office is old and they don't spend money on anything if it can be avoided. This place has the worst working environment out of any graduate scheme I ever heard. You are literally there 12 hours a day and you get maybe 10 minutes lunch break and if you take longer then they look at you like you told them their mum died. If you make a mistake you should expect to pay with a verbal assualt that would mentally scar even the toughest employee. Most are not even mistakes but just because you did it your own way. Teamwork never works at this company because everyone is scared they are going to be blamed for something. There is a meeting on Monday mornings that is 80% blamefest and 20% planning and you better not ever be late. Everyone is basically a recent graduate and there are 2 old guys at the top. One of them has some serious power issues (I think he is bipolar) and he will tear your confidence to shreds. I basically never spoke to the other one and don't know where he goes. After that there is some people that have been there a few years but most senior ones have a call centre/telesales background so it was hard to learn any real consulting skills from them. Your career will quickly go one of 2 ways here - you will be fired or you will quit.

I honestly do not know where to begin with this. We'll start with the Senior members of staff. - The management style is aggressive. You will be berated heavily for the smallest of infringements- and I mean heavily. You will be taught early on that this is not a place where you're allowed to ask "why?" or "how?" and present innovative ideas. You must fall in line. Most people above the level of associate consultant is ready to turn on you any second and their friendship MUST be taken with a pinch of salt. But thats not the real issue with this place. - Their methods are as outdated as the office aesthetics and there is a true cultural problem at play. Management should nurture and grow employees- and thus the company. The only reason they survive is due to a constant turnover of staff at associate level who are effectively cash cows. You come in, you work unbelievable hours and you're "milked" dry until fired or you quit. You leave and although your work/life balance is restored, you have a black mark on your CV. You've worked somewhere for less than a year and its difficult to twist into a positive. - If you have a degree in science or engineering and you think academically this role is aligned or worthwhile, think again. The tasks you perform on a day to day basis are no more than glorified admin with a bit of a data consolidation.