BearingPoint Reviews in Arlington, VA

Pros

BearingPoint had pretty decent pay for the industry. Company issued a laptop computer, which made it convenient to telecommute periodically.

Cons

Hoteling was difficult. As a BearingPoint business consultant I did not have a home office space on a permenent basis.

Advice to Senior Management

Allow employees to work from home on Federal holidays during which their client host offices are closed, yet not a holiday for BearingPoint.

Pros

The pay was great (at the time) for someone at an analyst level. Free coffee at HQ.

Cons

I was unknowingly put on a project as a contract requirement because I met certain guidelines. Worked exclusively with people from other companies, with no exposure to other BearingPoint colleagues. Bad fit for the position.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a little more care with where you are staffing your employees. Bad form to put someone on an island by themselves.

Pros

Great place to start your career, but once you've acquired some skills its time to leave.

Some people say BE pays well, but that's assuming you came into BE with a high salary.

Cons

The company is in dire straits at this point. The executives continue to try to sell us the corporate Kool-Aid but the writing is on the wall, the stock is hovering around a quarter, and the employees are sick of it. Salary does not correlate to work performed or expected of employee.

Advice to Senior Management

Declare bankruptcy and never attempt to run a company again. Call up Harry You and say, " You were right and we were wrong, we've taken this company down a path it can't recover from."

Pros

Depending on the group you are in, BearingPoint offers great opportunity to grow your career. It is merit (and client development) based.

Cons

It's not consulting; it's government contracting. If the contract changes, or the client changes their mind, you better have some more business in your back pocket. The internal systems are terrible, and the corporate entity does very, very little to support business at the client delivery level.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more honest with the company as a whole, and recruit talented people from within. The problems with the company are obvious: poor systems to manage internal financials, and we recruit to fill specific openings in a completely haphazard way. No two interviews are the same, and good candidates get jerked around with multiple interviews before a group makes them an offer.

The stock price is an issue; if the street doesn't have confidence, why should employees who have their own money invested. Why should talented candidates come work for the company, when rivals (real rivals are Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC, and all the boutique consulting firms in the DoD sector) offer as good or better pay and benefits without all the drama. They all work on the same client territory - what about BearingPoint appeals to a new hire over one of our competitors? It's not our new, multi-million dollar red logo, which is so much better than our old, um, black logo that looked the same, just with a different font.