Poor management - Recensione dipendente - Senior Consultant presso Guidehouse

2,0
27 nov 2023
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Flexible work schedule and smart, hard working colleagues

Svantaggi

- Work/life balance is not good. They have "unlimited PTO" but that is not really the case. Since your performance is based on billability rate, you need to reach 90% (at least for senior consultant) by the end of the calendar year or you face a bad review. To meet this, you must work over 40 hours a week and if you want to take off it counts against your billability rate. So, it really is more "move your hours around and work over 40 hours a week consistently in order to be able to take off". There is no actual leave. - poor management. The associate director on my project could not manage the client which led to the client flip flopping their decisions and having us redo work constantly. In the time I worked on the project, we did not move the project forward at all. The client even said at one point that they didn't believe in the project. It was so bad that in a 6-month span, 6 people left the project and/or company (averaging 1 per month). I gave this feedback when I left, but from my understanding nothing was done and this person was actually promoted.

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5,0
10 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

fantastic company to work for

Svantaggi

educational opportunities were hard to find and fund

2,0
13 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

I work directly with excellent people. My immediate colleagues are collaborative, capable, and committed to doing high-quality work for clients.

Svantaggi

The biggest challenges tend to come from the corporate side of the organization. Corporate processes and communication can sometimes feel disconnected from the needs of project teams, which creates unnecessary friction. In addition, benefits that were once stronger, including 401(k) matching and medical coverage, have been significantly reduced. A recent example is the increased emphasis on “utilization rates” in merit increases. While utilization is understandable in a consulting environment, tying it too heavily to merit can effectively penalize employees for using earned vacation time and can make PTO feel less like a real benefit.

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