BearingPoint Reviews

Pros

Working in HR provided a work/life balance. Flexibility with working from home. My peers and client teams were great people.

Cons

Teams too large. Stressful and difficult to manage large teams, and to be able to really excel in the role.

Advice to Senior Management

Since they company filed chapter 11 and was sold, I think that some of the things that our overall company leaders did could be taken to other companies as lessons learned. I think BearingPoint was headed in the right direction in 2008 before most of the companies problems, but many things were put on the back burner due to financial issues and filing chapter 11. It was too bad.

Pros

Enjoyed my team, compensation and work environment while at BearingPoint. Had the opportunity to work with great professionals and enjoyable clients.

Cons

Leadership lacked proper vision to enable the firm to prosper. Went through restructuring every six months which constantly distracted from execution.

Advice to Senior Management

At this stage I hope that management can unwind the company with minimal impact on the remaining staff and clients.

Pros

Advancement opportunities for entry level employees

Cons

Came in when company overall financial stability was starting to fail and thus rode out the demise of company til the end.

Advice to Senior Management

Seeing that Bearingpoint is now in bankruptcy there is not much advice to be given on a dead company. I think that the company should have stayed private but then again there were a lot of financial issues and debts owed that outweighed everything else.

Pros

Discovering new industries is each time very challenging. Being in a very competitive environment pushes you to develop your skills.

Cons

No time for personal life, they make you work like hell and are not rewarding you for the evenings you spend at their client. With the economic crisis, you spend more time at the HQ surfing on the internet rather than at the client.

Advice to Senior Management

People are treated like machines/robots and sometimes you find out on the intranet that the following day you are planned at a client, of course no one made sure you were prepared or biefed on the task...

Pros

If you work for the right manager you will get suppprt
Gain analytical skills
Learn how a consultant works

Cons

No communication between managers
Lie about promotion within company
Manager are not qualified
Workstation are not clean

Advice to Senior Management

Recogize that employee's are the most importaint asset
Wast of money on process that don't work
Only want to hear their own voice
Don't train you for the position

Pros

Pay was decent
Made some good friends out of the experience
Got experience at a big firm
Was able to learn what I didn't want in a company.

Cons

Management perpetuated double standards, played favorites, and did not support you if issues arose on a project.
Expectations were not communicated, yet employees were reprimanded for not meeting those expectations.
Corporate culture was strange, super-competitive but without the same esteem as competitors.
Extreme use of consultant-speak buzz words like "bandwidth"
Struggle to advance, as I was not one of my manager's "favorites"

Advice to Senior Management

get your act together and recognize that you will continue to have high attrition levels as long as you continue to treat employees this way.

Pros

BearingPoint was a great place to work...while they were around. I learned a lot and had the ability to work with tons of smart people. Moved on quickly to higher roles and was promoted each year I was there which was great. Bonus was a little weak...but it was something and I have friends who were not getting raises over those years because of the economy.

Cons

Well..... for one thing - the company went bankrupt, after they said that they weren't going to. another is that some bosses expect you to work night and day for them, over the weekend, while your on vacation, etc. other bosses are awesome tho and respect your personal time.

Advice to Senior Management

It would be sweet if they could have figured out how to keep the company running. Lots of good hard workers lost there jobs because of some failures.

Pros

collaborative envirmonement with very intelligent and gifted people. Excellent environmnet for self motivated creative people.
 Leader in what they do and how.

Cons

Sr Managment is weak Company has had difficulty in making migration from partnership to public company. It is highly matrixed and eos can get in the way.

Advice to Senior Management

Less personal gain focus more company focus

Pros

-Great People
- Always a place where you can learn
-Management always communicated with you to make sure you were happy
-Great Upper Management

Cons

The company was in trouble and you could see that thru various factors...

Pay was not as good as others
Work environment suffered

Advice to Senior Management

only advice i can bring is that being true during the con calls would help settle some of the unease

Pros

challenging work. people you worked with were hard working.

Cons

there was poor time managment on projects. post-9/11, business never really picked up except for the public sector. communication from senior mgmt was not clear.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire quality people and nurture and retain them.