-Limited areas of focus. Essentially the firm is focused on internal audit and SOX work. If you do anything else expect to travel significantly.
-Be prepared to work on little details that add little to no value on the client engagement (i.e. unnecessary flow charts, timelines, controls listing and walkthroughs that do not have relevance in the final deliverable to the client). Its all "Keep you busy" type work. Unfortunately, the client is paying for all this and has no idea.
-Little to no on-boarding process for experienced hires. We have higher expectations of experienced hires but management's disorganization and lack of training sets these new hires to fail.
-Experienced hires are staffed based on resource gaps rather than matching their skills with a relevant engagement. Essentially everyone is a body just billing the client.
-Revenue growth of the company is primarily due to the hiring of more staff. Protiviti ends up billing more to the client for work that could have been performed by less staff.
-POTENTIAL CLIENTS BEWARE: Protiviti's business model is predicated on getting their foot in the door for a specific engagement in order to find more work to bill you for. We are all evaluated in being creative to find additional work. Never expect to only pay the proposed amount. Lots of cost overruns and budget/project updates.
-Lots of turnover! Protiviti is hiring masses of amounts of staff. Some will sink and some will swim. They are hoping experienced hires bring in more business.
-401K benefits are comical. Essentially all you get matched is 33% for each dollar up to 6% of salary. No incentive there.
-Health Benefits are average
-Rigid review/evaluation process. I would recommend do bare minimum. Any overachieving will not result in faster promotions or higher pay.
-Titles are insignificant. Protiviti titles are not comparable to Big 4 titles. (e.g. Manager at protiviti is more like a Senior associate at Big 4).
-Antiquated Expense reporting system and travel booking system.
-Very robotic mentality and culture.
