BearingPoint Reviews in McLean, VA

Pros

Overal the are very few positives that i can speak of.
coworkers were nice to work with and helpful.
the envionrment was a laib back one.

Cons

no management support for change or ideas.
promotions or raises are hard to come by.
certain managers can micro managers.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to listen to the ideas of employees and support their employees.
management needs to reorganize the way business is done.

Pros

best people in the world, smart driven

Cons

bad leadership led to its downfall

Advice to Senior Management

hire real leaders with experience running publicly traded companies.

Pros

The company looks good on a resume

Cons

They severely underpay employees. Horrible company

Pros

The salary -
it was above average

Cons

no work life balance
average benefits
terrible communication from upper management

Advice to Senior Management

Don't remain silent on major issues that impact the company

Pros

BearingPoint offered a flexibility to work on different kinds of projects.

Cons

Time between projects could lead to pressure.

Pros

Smart, Dynamic people
Opportunties to move up the corporate chain
Excellent benefits
Diversity of work
Relative work life balance depending on the project
Excellent initial training

Cons

Often felt lost in the dust
Never met my manager in person
In person training was hard to attend due to client obligations

Advice to Senior Management

More active and direct engagement with employees to foster mentoring relationships and understand and guide employees to grow their unique strengths

Pros

excelent opportunities for growth and development

Cons

unorganized and higher management not accessible

Advice to Senior Management

listen

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

- Fair to Good colleagues in comparison to other top consulting companies
- Good benefits
- Great PTO (5 weeks/yr in pretty standard)

Cons

- Promotions and reviews were anything but transparent
- Politics like its Capitol Hill!
- Company was perpetually in hard times, so no training whatsoever

Advice to Senior Management

- Make reviews transparent
- Make up your mind -- do you want to be a global consulting company or not