Hitachi Consulting Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – -Benefits are decent including paid holiday shutdown between Christmas and New Years
-Can be a good/safe environment for new college graduates who want to learn about consulting

Cons – -Pay is not competitive with other similar firms
-Promotion is based mostly on favorites and time spent at level
-A lot of staff aug work

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Hitachi Consulting full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good medical benefits and 401K

Cons – Upward mobility is based not on performance but on who you know and how far out on a limb they are willing to go to help you get ahead.

Advice to Senior Management – The company may have a better chance of growing if employees could spend less time on administrative activities. Infringe less on employee personal time.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Smaller management consulting company where experience can be gained. A pretty good springboard to the larger management consulting companies. Some great comraderie among the working teams who are typically younger consultants.

Cons – Have - have not culture where you are either a consultant working long hours for below industry pay, or you are an executive working banking hours for a healthy paycheck. High level of office politics at times as some consultants manuever to become executive favorites. Not an environment for the timid.

Advice to Senior Management – Temper the general opinion of favortism in the performance review by making that an objective and open process. Allow employees to formally review their managers to identify management issues. Close the wage inequity gap between consultants and management.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Smart people, good clients and challenging work

Cons – - New national operating model is not for everyone
- Hitachi Consulting lacks the scale to support a true national industry and solution organization structure that targets billion dollar and above companies
- Organization model changes will continue to drive high turnover for those people interested in true work life balance
- Hitachi Consulting has effectively moved away from working with mid-market companies

Advice to Senior Management – Hold on tight, turnover in the coming months/years is going to be very high

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Great people
Good work/life balance
Good benefits
Heavy emphasis on local community activities

Cons – Poor pay not in line with market and slow process to advance
Too many and continuous organizational changes

Advice to Senior Management – Senior Management needs to be more consistent and become more in tune with what is actually going on at the various offices across the country. Morale has plummetted across the firm this past year with the new operating model. Something has to be done to motivate people again - they are leaving in herds.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Number one reason that I am still here is primarily because of the people around you. The employees and co-workers on the project accounts are a very fun group and extremely talented and hard-working.

Cons – The salary is a joke. The recently new shift to a national model has major implications for the current employee base. Too aggressive of a model to become the next Deloitte or Accenture.

Advice to Senior Management – Compensation and bonuses should reflect industry standards, HC is way below the norm and their be;ow avg. salary bands are what is making talented individuals leave for better paying positions...

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Pros
Met some great good people, some good couches and superb consultants but most of them are gone now in the last nine months.

Some good opportunities to gain responsabilities from, management is approachable, but not understanding.

Cons – Compensation is not competitive compared with other firms, large shift, not as flexible as you may expect when asking for vacations. May find from time to time some harassement in the work environment by an unethical project manager.

This is a good company, with good people, challenging clients, a lot of opportunity to make your own path.. but as the company is aggressively growing work demands and expectations have gone up, but compensation has not...

Advice to Senior Management – Great advice comes from many sources.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – There is a minority group inside Hitachi consulting that values talent and honesty over Gender, nationality, race etc when it comes to promotion and career advancement.

Cons – Majority of middle managers and VP's are unfair when it comes to promotion and poisitionng right employees in right projects. They lack leadership, inspiring committment, mentioring skills too.

Advice to Senior Management – Dont thrust people into management roles, Top Manager who sells more modules shouldnt be made a VP. Allow people to develop skills in leading people, managing change etc.

Former Employee – worked at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Regional model w/ limited travel (caveat - reorg to national model will affect this to an unknown degree)
Reorganization announcement that may address some of the historic and cultural issues
A good place to start a career as a junior business consultant

Cons – Historically entrenched management with a dated world view of the consulting industry.
Compensation (salary, benefits, bonus) not competitive.
Subjective performance evaluations favor a narrow selection of employees.
Low morale and high attrition rate for consultants that are specialists, technology-focused, senior in experience or high-performers.

Advice to Senior Management – Get clear about Hitachi's business model and create a singular message to both your staff and your customers about that model. If it is a general continuance of commodity and supplemental consulting, embrace that message and identity with your staff and customers. If it is to be a new model of value-add and specialist consulting, ensure executive experience and acceptance with that model, and replace existing counterproductive metrics and staffing processes with new ones that will attract and retain top talent.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – some of the people are nice, talented, and genuine
fun beer chugging culture

Cons – salary + benefits. they will give you excuses all day long as to how they are paying 'market' rates and why they can't pay you x.
leadership & management are all talk and full of excuses. they play favorites and it shows.
can't get their act straight to really become a big 4 like they want.

Advice to Senior Management – value your workers, stop being subjective in promotions and salaries and ratings, pay your workers, stop making excuses and giving us bs. everyone under the VP level may seem like they admire the VPs, but deep down people are untrusting of anyone over VP.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend