Vantaggi
Nice offices. Free premium band bottled water. If you’re related to senior management or can build an “adopted child” rapport with one of the few powerful MDs you’ll get plum assignments, massively better pay than your peers, and rapid advancement all while massive mistakes are overlooked. Only a few have managed to do this, but the rewards are fantastic if you can pull it off.
Svantaggi
+The work environment is toxic. There are some very bad apples here, particularly at the Director level. On several occasions, clients have had to intervene on behalf of junior employees being verbally abused by Directors at a client site. +Employees don’t even bother going to our internal HR anymore as HR couldn’t care or do less about even the most egregious conduct. +The recent positive reviews are clearly fake. Instead of addressing issues, management or HR has resorted to writing fake reviews. Read them and judge for yourself. This is representative of the firm’s ethics and approach to "addressing" issues. +Nepotism is rampant. There has been many complaints about this, which I thought would lead to reforms. However, it seems all the complaints lead to was more senior people asking for favors for their relatives. +The firm is poorly managed across the board. There are way too many senior people for the amount of work we have, yet we keep hiring more. All despite never-ending cuts to existing employee bonuses and pay. +Some MDs are way too fond of the young females hires. +It can’t be emphasized enough how sharply pay has declined in recent years. "industry leading to industry joke" is the joke. +Some teams send employees overseas for months at a time on a few days notice, without regard to personal constraints or preferences. When the firm is covering travel expenses, you’ll be chewed out and threatened with termination if you even spend half of what is supposedly permitted under company policy. +Bonus disparity is massive and completely lacks any relationship to merit, tenure, or level. +Management is very dishonest. Willingness to lie to anyone about anything at anytime seems to be the only perquisite for a managerial role at PFG. +When it comes to pay and promotions, believe NOTHING your manager tells you. Absolutely nothing. These decisions are the practices group's, not HR's. Don't let them convince you otherwise and hold them accountable to at least explain the situation if you are unhappy.