FTI Consulting Reviews

Pros

The company provide flexibility to employees

Cons

A little bit too busy, work life is not really balanced

Pros

- Diversity of matters and client requests means creative and truly interesting work
- Generous PTO offerings and competitive benefits
- Management and consultants are good people, generally very pleasant to work alongside
- Opportunities to branch out and learn the processes of other practice sub-groups to help develop a 'big picture' understanding of E-Discovery
- Promotions, raises, and bonuses are all attainable - but they must be earned twice over to ensure their delivery.

Cons

- While there are few obstacles to learning new processes and tools, there are few established roads, and even fewer as practice groups become more rigidly defined and separated over time. If you want to learn more, you have to be very motivated
- At times work loads can be extremely high and work/life balance suffers, and while PTO can be quickly accrued, there are occasionally times it is simply not possible to use it
- Communication and interaction between working groups is being promoted less over time - making it difficult for newer hires to learn where certain areas of expertise is concentrated or how to gain it themselves.

Advice to Senior Management

- Offer more long-term development advice/options to new hires - increase knowledge exchange sessions, encourage performance managers to take a more active role in their subordinate's development. Reward performance managers and individuals who take the time to truly mentor and assist in the growth of their subordinates and peers.

- Provide more opportunities for networking at the Director and Senior Consultant level - there is great technical and client-facing development done at the lower levels, but in getting our people involved in outside symposiums and trade shows will enhance our brand visibility, increase our network of contacts for new potential engagements, and train our fledgling leaders to better grow into experienced rainmakers and managers.

Pros

it gives diverse experiences to employees.

Cons

it is less organized yet.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep going but sometimes taking back.

Pros

Good Salary, Career growth, nice environment

Cons

limited PTO, insurance, pay grades limitations

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

There are alot of events to try and get everyone to socialize - kickball, paintball, segway tour, museum visits, etc. Unfortunately these aren't really that "fun" because if your behavior deviates in the slightest from what the professional expectation is, you are judged and ostracized, akin to a elitist fraternity. Some of the work can be interesting if you enjoy programming with SQL.

Cons

There is absolutely no appreciation for people or ideas that don't fit their "vanilla" (literally and figuratively) culture. If you value individuality and creative thought, this is not the place for you. At the DC office, people force a happy face and put on a facade of over-joyousness. Most people are not down-to-earth and genuine in the slightest.

Advice to Senior Management

Unfortunately, FTI's business model is endemic to most of corporate America. It'll probably work on a superficial level - the types that don't fit in usually aren't very vocal in their discontent and the ones who do are quite aggressive in their promotion of the firm. Don't expect a diverse set of backgrounds or ideas going forward though.

Pros

Intellectually stimulating....allows for telecommuting; works on high profile maters quite often

Cons

Needs stronger employee engagement, better bonus system, a foundation, more structure among employee ranks and more collaboration among practices

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention to employees; better compensation and bonus structure

Pros

Can be challenging work for the right people.
Bright coworkers who you can learn a lot from if they aren't completely wrapped up in their own agenda.

Cons

Poor communication from corporate management.
Poor communication and decision making process in our practice area.
Over time self promotion has gotten out of control.
Reward system favors people who aren't team players.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management needs be more transparent and open. Local practice areas need to follow suit. True leadership needs to be developed in local practice areas.

Pros

Big company, opening offices around the world and growing. It was a challenge to open the local office and launch the company/brand in our country.

Cons

Lots of politics inside the organization, wars between areas and regions. It s very difficult to innovate or launch new ideas (something very importand in marketing area). Senior management is a desaster.

Advice to Senior Management

Start taking care of your employees, money isn t all

Pros

Interesting and challenging work. Can learn a lot quickly
High profile / exposure to c-level executives and key decision makers
Opportunity to travel (if you want)
Casual Fridays

Cons

Sink or swim environment, no formal training
Lots of politics inside the organization
Internal communication is horrible
Constant stress and pressure to be at full capacity and full utilization
Tendency to over promise the client, and low ball on budgeting
Long hours due to unrealistic deadlines and understaffing
Slow promotion track
Average pay (received no bonus in second year at firm)
Disconnect between upper management and employees
Lack of job security
Company turnover is high

Advice to Senior Management

Improve communications!! focus on your employees - need to put more time, money and value into your people

Pros

Flexibility - no punching the clock - merit based - no facetime
exciting and challenging projects on timely and important clients

Cons

compensation is lower than banking
compensation structure rewards billing a lot of hours regardless of efficiency, work product quality, or performance
too much focus on being "billable" and not on developing business and leaders

Advice to Senior Management

Spend more money on people via compensation, real training seminars/courses, and develop talent.
communicate more - dont use "confidentiality" as an excuse