Frost & Sullivan Reviews

Pros

good place for learning new things
good colleagues environment, good boss

Cons

rare time to share with your family

Advice to Senior Management

more attractive office environment , like google, let employee treat company as their own home

Pros

exposure, flexibility, independence, teamwork and crowd

Cons

salary, salary and other benefits

Advice to Senior Management

attrition is a serious issue

Pros

Good work/life balance.
Intelligent, yet friendly, colleaques.

Cons

Low Pay
Poor Benefits
Limited Advancement
Cryptic Upper Management
Dreary Offices

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management is focused on driving down costs, key to these efforts is offshoring. Might actually be a sensible management decision. But the relentless focus on driving down costs generates alot of cynicism, at least within the NA offices.

Pros

Good exposure to industry thought leaders

Cons

Senior management of some large business units have no management experience. Therefore retention of talent is low.

Advice to Senior Management

Shake up Senior Management to achieve more better results

Pros

Large in hand amount compared to low CTC
Sometimes you get good work

Cons

Office is 6 days and they give a stupid reason as to why we work on saturday
Indians have to work in Indian timing and also US timing. Minimum 12 hrs work a day
Most of the work is dog work

Advice to Senior Management

Its better if Frost is sold off to some other firm

Pros

Since F&S is marketed extremely well, the general perception is that they also have the bench strength and bandwidth of the largest consulting concerns; consequently, many former employees have successfully leveraged the name into far more rewarding opportunities for themselves after two or three years while many of those that remain intend to do likewise once they cross that threshold.

Cons

Compensation plans that fall far short of industry standards. The default advice by senior management and senior colleagues is to get another job if you don't like it here. In some circles, leadership considers it a fine accomplishment to discuss how small the payroll burden is for their unit.

Career advancement is very limited for sales/consultants and practically non-existent for non-sales functions.

Senior leadership seem to have unlimited amounts of time to devise and deploy new initiatives, re-branding exercises, productivity measurements, etc. without any regard for the way these 'improvements' negatively impact the organization and client deliverables when incorrectly deployed. They never claim ownership for lackluster results, flawed execution and less than ideal outcomes.

F&S is led by untested and uninspired visionaries that are fundamentally opposed to allowing motivated and talented in-house experts solve and mitigate the problems that flow from the structure noted above.

Knowing that your employer is unlikely to sincerely adopt the best practices given to paying clients.

The political landscape at the divisional and unit levels is more akin to feuding warlords than the multi-national collaborative love fest described in the marketing materials. It falls to the mid-level to junior staff to navigate the minefields of competing 'leaders' and hidden agendas when driving client work through the shop.

Realizing that the path to partnership or other active senior leadership requires at least one of the following:
-your most productive years must be behind you
-your work history does not include any employers other than Frost within the past ~ 15 years
-you've set aside whatever expertise was required to be seriously considered for your first position at Frost and wholeheartedly adopted the 'way we do it here'

Apart from that, it's a great place to work.

Advice to Senior Management

None needed.

Pros

Great learning environment, Very tough client problems to be addressed like innovation, product launch and M&A work, excellent collegues to work with, flexible work environment,

Cons

Things move too fast and it is tough to create a vision of an industry for my clients when everything is changing exponentially.

Advice to Senior Management

Promote me faster up the channels. A clearer path on how we move from analyst to strategist to visionary. Its difficult to understand all the skills needed to make it the top.

Pros

wont feel pressue if you happen to live a high pressue life
Time flexible if you can prove your worthy of it

Cons

Poor infrastructure
Poor salaries
Poor location choices

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership is not about policies its about caring for people at the grass roots

Pros

- Great environment
- Great people
- Very dynamic
- No routine!
- Very young environment
- Hands on - put your hand on job and learn it and you will grow!

Cons

- No global pattern sometimes
- Lack of global integration

Advice to Senior Management

- Frost & Sullivan is a great place heading towards the right direction to become a global strategic consulting enterprise. In this effort, Frost & Sullivan is integrating its global processes and really choosing the right projects to embark on.

Pros

Good for the classic foot in the door

Cons

Nepotism, incompetent management, employees exploitation, no benefits, very low salaries. Quality is an option.

Advice to Senior Management

Your employees are your strength. Think about it!