PA Consulting – “Good For Freshers”

Pros

Working environment conducive with colleagues who are ambitious, skilled, experienced

Net speed quite good as it's a critical factor for secondary research

Work From Home for people with laptops

Annual leave days and medical insurance coverage etc.

Monthly briefing sessions and getogether follwed by lunch/snacks etc;

Yearly conducted fun days

Cons

Not quite bright future for KPC as it is still stuck with Secondary Reserach alone

Not all consulting departments with PA quite supporting KPC with sufficient engagements

Poor support from consulting practices within PA in terms of client facing work/sold jobs

0% travel for middle management seniors(AS2 cadre)

Less than market average fixed salary component

Salary disparity with memebers of same team. This relates to the fact that referred employees and ex collegues tend to earn more money irrespective of the total experience in hand, when compared to employess who have been in roles for more than 2 years within KPC

Great place to settle down for people in late 30's and above.Focus on some less value add work on a day to day basis and one can retire with some good fortunes in hand

Provision of lap tops and black berries only to key specific individuals. There are people(married and un married individuals, mothers etc;) within a team who from 2007 haven't had a lap top. On the other hand there are peole who have been issued laptops from the first month they had joined.

Top management not so keen on taking the KPC to next level inspite of key inputs from it's key employees. Management of KPC needs to see around and understand where they are placed amongst it's competitors and where the other KPO's are moving to. Most of the KPO's in Bangalore, Noida, Hyderabad (captives and 3rd parties) that support consulting are well ahead of PA's KPC catering to multple areas apart from Secondary Research alone.Focus on Secondary reserach alone would tend to be factor to abitious employees who wanna look at careers outside PA owing to the reason that the demand for people with secondary research skill sets alone is very miniscule.

Lack of clarity around roles and responsibilty prevails. One could find peole at different designations doing the same job at the end of the day.Senior research analyst(SRA),Principal Analyst, Team lead all do the same job at the end of the day.There is no differentiating factor between different roles and responsibilties with respect to an employee's designation.

Opportunirty to travel is granted to levels above Manager and above and the lower levels are expected to feed them with inputs lke power point presentations, key contact details, meeting arrangements, key dashboard details etc.

Higher cadre emloyees especially the head of division with other personal interests(family owned business) and stock/share investments find KPC a great place to work owing to minimal control over these within office environment. While lower level employees are nailed down for indulging with their personal matters.

Some low level employees were even asked to resign owing to the above related issues as unfortunately their performance was portrayed to be coming down

Improper behaviour of the top management people, use of abusive language during meetings and employee briefings.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on the Con's.It's better late than never.