PRTM Management – “Short-term partner profitability focused firm means average experience for everyone else”

Pros

PRTM provides great opportunity to work with senior leaders in the firm as the partner (i.e., Director) to consultant ratio is significantly lower than that of other firms.

If you enjoy operations and different aspects of how to improve how companies run, this is the place to be.

In addition, there is no formalized "up-or-out" policy allowing for formal fexibility - which can be good and bad.

Cons

One of the higher partner profitability firms in management consulting with a small pyramid (consultants per partner) means several things at PRTM:

- Lowe(er) wages for non-partners
- High billable targets for consultants (leaves little slack capacity for firm growth)
- Few non-consulting resources (e.g., no research staff)
- Little/no investment in formal consultant training
- Little/no budget for team building
- A gerneral low-cost approach to everything

This makes it difficult for PRTM to attract top talent and grow effectively into new areas. However, PRTM tries to compensate by not having a formal "up-or-out" policy.

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