Diamond Management & Technology Consultants Reviews

Pros

Rewarding work with smart consultants

Cons

Limited name recognition and relatively lowe r pay.

Pros

Compensation, Some of the smartest people to work with, very often good projects. You learn a lot within a short period of time working here.

Cons

If you do good, news will travel fast. If you somehow are perceived to do badly,due to reasons within or outside of your control, news travels like wildfire. And bad news sticks on for a long time and you get very few second chances.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat employees with a little more respect and ensure that promotions are a little more transparent.

Pros

Good compensation. Excellent benefits. You know what your peers make - compensation is dictated by level, not by shady negotiations. Plenty of opportunities for advancement.

Cons

Poor work life balance. Expectations that you will do firm work on top of a 40-hour client work week. Up or out policy.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure the company remains as an independent business unit within PwC. Otherwise it will completely lose its identity and its people will leave.

Pros

The benefits are great (we had free health insuance, and they just started charging us for our family. Diamond really focuses on work life balance.

Cons

I worked for a manager who was too hands off. The people I worked with had little or no work integrity and the manager always made excuses for him and senior management knew what was going on.

Advice to Senior Management

When you know what is going on in certain departments, don't wait until people start quiting to do something about it.

Pros

Good salary and good environment for proactive individuals seeking advancement

Cons

Poor work-life balance, almost no say in staffing, too much execution work, and not enough appreciation of employees

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention to work/life balance and career development

Pros

people, projects, virtual model, upward mobility

Cons

very long hours, no "beach" time, hard to get time off

Advice to Senior Management

Caution during the merger

Pros

Its truly a people first company. Everyone is very helpful and everyone comes together for the common goal - delivering exception value to the client

Cons

It is up to each and everyone to strive and balance their work and life. One needs to be consciously working on it.

Advice to Senior Management

It is up to each and everyone to strive and balance their work and life. One needs to be consciously working on it - introduce programs to help employees with this.

Pros

Wonderful people with a fantastic, inclusive culture. Competitive pay and amazing benefits. Interesting work with senior client engagement. Pushing to improve culture for women.

Cons

The travel is difficult, but that is part of the territory with consulting. Partnership criteria is not as objective as it should be.

Advice to Senior Management

Remember that your people are what make this company special, and do what it takes to keep them. Be transparent about management decisions.

Pros

The firm has about 500 consultants and all the people are great with a culture that encourages entrepreneurial thinking and taking the initiative.

Cons

The lack of brand recognition and rigid salary structure makes it hard to compete with other consulting firms in attracting talent.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior leadership should provide clear direction for the firm and provide opportunities to select projects based on preferences and skills.

Pros

The firm has a great set of people, provides varied project opportunities if you are not unucky enough to get staffed on a never ending project, adequate face time with senior people in leading firms.

Cons

Lack of transparency in the review process. Copensation is tied to levels and not to review performance. Work life balance can sometimes go for a toss.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to be more open and forthcoming in their communications. Diamond is a small firm and transparency and communication needs to be its strongest points. Also, invest in training people