Duke Corporate Education Reviews in Raleigh-Durham, NC Area

Pros

Duke CE can be a great place to work -- decent pay and benefits for most roles. Exciting projects, exciting places to travel, fascinating companies and management challenges. For the most part, your colleagues are great, and the company parties can even be fun. You will bond.

Cons

Long hours, lots of travel. It is first and foremost a consulting role. It's easy to get pigeon-holed, and hard to move up unless you have years of experience in consulting, or you have a MBA. All that's not a guarantee. If you're a young mother or father, you will not get a break from the travel. Most young moms have quit. Everyone wants to be in business development or in design -- not all are considered talented enough. Clients expect a lot because they pay a lot for services. It's hard to pull yourself above the menial work sometimes, but it's essential to do that quickly and move forward quickly in this organization. Title inflation is rampant.

Advice to Senior Management

The organization has changed since its inception -- the ideas that run the place have changed. Be honest with yourselves and with new hires and tell them that. There is very little that separates DukeCE from any other consulting firms. The competitive difference is less. The tension between academic and practitioner is less. Perhaps you can reinvent yourselves -- you may have no choice. The heavy spenders are fewer nowadays.

Pros

Ability to meet people and travel - if your life can sustain that type of momentum at the time. I say that because it is "non stop".

Cons

There needs to be more teamwork...there was none when I was an employee there. It was difficult to get was you needed from each dept in order to get your tasks done. This in turn made it more challenging to perform your job with the extra stress - from an already stressful job. It was great when you accomplished it but that said more about the PM than the company.

Advice to Senior Management

See past the "institutional client"....they did not save the company in the recession that we are now all in - hence the mass layoffs. Broaden the scope of services provided and how, how it is delivered. Technology can play a vital role here.