Analysis Group Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Analysis Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – Friendly people, challenging atmosphere, overall good

Cons – Long hours, working weekends occasionally

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Analysis Group full-time

Pros – -Good compensation for consulting (not as good as investment banking and you'll be working almost as much)
-Nice perks
-People are very smart

Cons – -Zero work/life balance (even though they tell you otherwise)--you never know how late you're going to be working or whether you can take a Saturday off
-People are literally graded on how quickly they respond to emails on holidays, vacations, etc
-Tedious work, emphasis on perfect formatting over substance
-You will work for a lot of clients who've done distasteful or illegal things
-Difficult to transfer your experience here to other fields

This company is dishonest about culture and expectations during the hiring process, and the dishonesty starts at the top.

Advice to Senior Management – Be clear: This is as bad as investment banking, minus the travel. Investment banking pays better and at least they tell you what to expect from the beginning.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Analysis Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – High standards, good company to start career with

Cons – No growth for B.S/M.S candidates, no work/life balance

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Analysis Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – Very rigorous, very smart people. You'll develop strong excel and programming skills. You'll be able to get a lot done quickly. This will transfer over well to other jobs.

Cons – Lots of late nights, lots of weekends in the office. Work can be extremely stressful too. It's a good place to be for 2 years out of college, but don't stay any longer. You'll run out of interesting work to do and the stress and rest of the BS won't be worth it. You'll be better off finding a more interesting job.

The management, especially people that have been at AG their whole careers, love to talk about what an academic and lifestyle friendly environment the job is. Don't believe them! There are many things you can do as an analyst form AG that don't involve business school, and they'll stress you out less!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Analysis Group

Pros – Nice offices, casual dress code, analyst camaraderie

Cons – You will frequently find yourself working with the worst types of clients/ companies. Drug companies accused of medicare fraud. Financial firms who dumped bad investments on consumers. Public companies that withheld pertinent information from shareholders. CEOs and CFOs who manipulate profits. Hedge fund managers accused of insider trading. These clients will pay handsomely to stay out of jail or avoid paying damages. Analysis Group and the lawyers they work with will bend over backwards to help their clients. Work can be soul-numbing if not soul-crushing. Billable hours are king.

Advice to Senior Management – Be honest about what this company is and what it is not. Stop bringing in kids to do the work that have absolutely no idea what they are getting themselves into. More transparency.

Current Employee – been working at Analysis Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great career development. Nice working environment.

Cons – Working with attoneys. Long hours.

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

Former Employee – worked at Analysis Group full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good pay
Collegial atmosphere; lots of social events

Cons – Feast or famine work environment--either very busy or nothing to do

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Analysis Group full-time

Pros – Smart and hard-working people who will help you out when you need a hand or otherwise lend moral support. HR involves analysts in the recruiting process and does a good job screening for personality fit (detail-oriented and logical but personable and team player). Who doesn't love seeing their cases in the WSJ? Former analysts who returned are usually good managers. Offices are nice, good facilities and most importantly ever-improving lunch options in Back Bay area. Annual Boston/NYC/Montreal ski trip is a highlight. Analysts generally insulated from dull case administration tasks and can focus on research. Nobody breathing over your shoulder and people generally okay with some personal email or web surfing to decompress as long as you don't bill it. Wow your friends at parties with Excel tricks.

Cons – Easy to get in a rut if you can't get off of tedious cases or dysfunctional teams, must be proactive at finding interesting work and running ASAP from soul numbing projects. Expectations seem to differ across offices with some promoting nearly all their analysts "early" and others none, even though in theory all the partners make these calls. Healthcare work has been spinning off into its own culture for past couple years so analyst unity has taken a hit. Training is piecemeal and strangely timed throughout the year.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue giving analysts flexibility to determine their own paths and having a more hands off approach. Encourage company cohesiveness as it grows through more staff events.

Current Employee – been working at Analysis Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – Coworkers are all, at least, very smart. Several coworkers border on brilliant. This would be intimidating if the culture were not so casual. That guy down the hall with a Ph.D. from MIT, who taught at Harvard for a bit, he goes by Bill and his door is always open. AG is a great place to learn and grow in an environment where excellence is the norm. This is especially true for analysts. The firm knows you'll be moving on to grad school after a few years. Top b-schools not only regularly accept AG analysts, they actually come and actively recruit on an annual basis. The firm is supportive enough to cater lunches for these presentations and hold work shops for not just the analysts who will be applying to grad schools, but also the senior managers who will be writing their recommendations.

Cons – Analysts are expected to navigate the informal "labor market" largely through their own initiative. This can be stressful and intimidating, though it ultimately gives an unbelievable amount of flexibility in terms of finding work and coworkers that you enjoy. Hours can be tough to predict, and when they get bad, they can stay that way for weeks on end. Expensable meals and cab vouchers ease the burden, but these stretches can be rough. It isn't impossible to self-select away from the type of cases that get crazy though.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it informal, continue to encourage camaraderie both in and out of the office.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Analysis Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – Bright people, work is very quant-driven. Lots of learning opportunities in different industries and for different skillsets. My office was very tightly managed and analysts connect with each other very well.

Cons – Not all people are from Ivy background. Some are from even from less-known state schools. Some analysts struggle to keep up with the quality standard

Advice to Senior Management – Blend in more with analysts and create inter-position team-building activities

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend