Hitachi Consulting Reviews

Pros

Great health insurance
A lot of PTO time

Cons

Management doesn't listen to you about your career development wishes
Not much training, especially with technology
They make non management people do a lot of administrative work such as creating proposals billing clients, and sales work.

Advice to Senior Management

There needs to be more opportunities for training. For people that have functional consulting experience, it can be a challenge to get good technical experience and knowledge at Hitachi Consulting. Also Hitachi says that they listen to employees regarding career development. However, I've found that they usually just try to staff me on any project they can find. Plus, some of the project managers lack leadership ability and shouldn't be in charge of other people.

Pros

Being assured the company is not going to go under.

Cons

Haven't learned one positive thing from this crowd.
Average employee that I met - confused mediocre middle-aged guy accumulating frequent flyer points.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you doing - more work for people who come in to fix the mess after you done with the project.

Pros

High Quality Co-Workers
Flexible Schedule

Cons

Compensation isn't competitive, the corporate structure has lots of hoops to jump through and it is often very stressful work environment.

Pros

Good stepping stone to other consultancies. With extraordinarily high attrition (up to 60% in some markets), there is bound to be opportunity on consulting jobs.

Cons

Glorified Oracle shop. Can't compete with Deloitte, IBM, Accenture, and the others. Focus on margins fails to take into account improving the business. Many angry ex-employees (at Slalom, PwC, and boutiques) now compete head-on. Compentencies have evaporated through exodus (see: PeopleFirm). No respect for sales (business development turnover ~100% Y-o-Y)

Advice to Senior Management

Get out and turn over to someone else. Either use the Japan parent as leverage to grow or move away. Clean house on VP's. Buy a real management consulting company.

Pros

Good place to start a career
Lots of training opportunities
Nice people to work with

Cons

CEO and executives are out of touch
Employee recognition programs are insulting
Incentive compensation does not exist
Salary is terrible
No Bonuses
Too much overhead
Team culture has evaporated
Too cheap to splurge on employees
Staff augmentation projects
Limited opportunities

Advice to Senior Management

Get with the times. Completely overhaul compensation and recognition programs. Get rid of the people who are coasting. Reward the employees who deserve it - not the ones who have been there a long time.

Pros

nice, open and friendly culture; various knowledge and access to different verticals; managements are considerate and generous, clear about the goal of the firm

Cons

salary is not very satisfying, need to be more flexible on relocating employees for the sake of keeping talents around the world

Advice to Senior Management

keep the nice, open and friendly culture; continue to encourage various knowledge sharing and access to different verticals, design more flexible program for employees relocation for the sake of keeping talents around the world

Pros

Job satisfaction, team atmosphere, fun place to work, life balance between work and play, your co-workers turn into your friends.

Cons

Pyramid level of management structure only so may managers/sr managers/directors/vps so it is hard to get promoted. Sometime the travel can be a bit much.

Pros

Great benefits. A lot of very talented people to work with.

Cons

The annual review process is a joke. The promotions, progressions and increases are determined well before the GARM process ever starts. If you understand that going in, this should not be a problem.

Advice to Senior Management

You are too top heavy. Lose directors and VPs who are not selling. Add C/SCs to improve margin. Start to look at back log and hit ratio to find health of firm.

Pros

Most people were great to work with.

Cons

Some of the leaders lacked the ability to lead

Advice to Senior Management

Hire brighter people and promote from within.

Pros

It was a good experience so far but the people are mean and unkind and could use some help with life

Cons

The pay is good but the people could use some work because they don't care about your success and should

Advice to Senior Management

Start to reach out to your employees and ask them what they really want from the company instead of assuming