FTI Consulting Reviews

Current Employee – been working at FTI Consulting full-time for less than a year

Pros – People are wonderful to work with

Cons – DC can get hot in the summers!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at FTI Consulting full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great people, challenging and creative work, opportunity to grow career

Cons – Nothing to add at this time

Advice to Senior Management – Nothing to add at this time

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at FTI Consulting full-time

Pros – Exciting dynamic work, various opportunities

Cons – lack of mentorship , lack of integration of various units

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at FTI Consulting full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good name. Seemingly solvent. Large enough to have advantages of scale. Starting to integrate globally.

Cons – Vicious political environment between management. Terrible culture. No respect for talent. Shark tank of people trying to keep their position. Talented senior people let go and replaced with hordes of junior associates who are paid low wages

Advice to Senior Management – Way too many low-skilled, cheaply paid workers. Keep and nurture your talent - listen to the innovators. Don't reward the snakes for back room politics - reward talent and creativity. FTI culture lacks authenticity and trust. FTI needs a better conscience towards its employees. The sectors terribly siloed due to competition over clients and territories.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at FTI Consulting full-time for more than a year

Pros – Young employee base, room for advancement, solid work/life balance (20 PTO days per year plus 3 floating holidays, 25 PTO days per year after 2 years on the job)

Cons – Low pay at the junior level

Advice to Senior Management – Pay your employees more

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at FTI Consulting

Pros – Compensation is about level with market.

Cons – Sometimes the hours are really long.

Advice to Senior Management – More work life balance.

Current Employee – been working at FTI Consulting full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Lots of freedom and responsibility quite early on regardless of level and experience.
Complex and challenging client problems on every project - SMD's do a good job of pushing team members to develop the solutions and present directly to the client.
Very much a merit based culture and "work hard play hard" attitude amongst teams.
Practice leaders understand what it takes to grow the business and are willing to invest in new service offerings and in team member development

Cons – Compensation appears fair and at market level but is not a transparent process
Experience and culture can vary significantly by practice and office - not enough consistency globally.

Advice to Senior Management – Come visit the core offices and make an effort to know your employees below the SMD level. Don't spend all your time in West Palm Beach.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at FTI Consulting full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – A good place to learn some new skills. Able to work independently. Some performance managers are really great, however their enthusiasm gets hampered by the leadership. Co-workers are pleasant to work with. Social outings are nice.

Cons – Work/Life balance can be poor for staff in consulting roles.

Lack of real advancement...just because you went from consultant to sr. consultant, to manager really doesn't mean anything.

A lack of a unified vision between teams and departments really keeps the practices and products from improving.

If you're hired, once the "honeymoon phase" is over, unless you've made it into one of the cliques, you're pretty much parked.

Advice to Senior Management – Take a good look at the middle management layers...the managing directors and senior managing directors. Those people are there to line their pockets and they may not really be concerned with the long term growth of the business. Look at the history of the stock price as an example, it's half the value it was in 2008.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at FTI Consulting full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Professional growth opportunity
traveling
new business connections

Cons – work / life balance
low pay
work might be very boring

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at FTI Consulting full-time for more than a year

Pros – Pays overtime incentive bonus. Great place to learn QC skills. Management will tell you directly what you need to improve upon. Career advancement opportunities are good.

Cons – Very bureaucratic - Poor leadership from management has led to incredible turnover rates

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on the people more (training, listening to their gripes and coming up with action plans to address, etc.)

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend