Hitachi Consulting Reviews

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

Pros – The people you work with are smart and interesting.
The local office culture is strong in Houston.

Cons – Senior Leadership is out of touch with their employees.
Senior Leadership does not know how to run a company of this size - they are flying by the seat of their pants.
Local Leadership has no autonomy or authority to make things happen.
Long work hours, small raises, even smaller bonuses.

Advice to Senior Management – Get back to basics - stop over engineering everything.
Get engaged with the people and stop leading via spreadsheet.

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 Hitachi Consulting full-time for more than a year

Pros – Work Life balance only factor.
Less pressure of work

Cons – Idiotic management and policies coming from hyderabad
No good Projects coming to Pune
On onsite oppurtunities HYD people who are favourite are sent and positions of talented people are taken by peole who belong to hyderabad just because of politics
People in Sierra claim to have experience of 16 & 17 years in technology which never existed 10 years before
Very political people from HYD seems like Sierra took over Hitachi not Hitachi who took over sierra.
ex:Annual day of Hitachi Consulting will be replaced by Annual day of Sierra great...

Advice to Senior Management – Value the people who are actually doing work otherwise with the sierra coming in picture you will e left with only HYD managers who are good for nothing
Value the resources and prove HItachi is a single brand don't let group of community like andra, telugu, tamil exist.
Let talent be the only criteria to get appreciation and promotion not favouritism.
Make a politics less culture prevent Pune and New joining Employess from Idiotic Sierra managers they are good people as well but Idiotic people are more get rid of them.
Value the new talent you are hiring and go accross India to hire not just Hyderabad.
Pay better salaries to people who have talent and passion to work and make sure the correct name are nominated not favourite people.

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 Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Relatively solid pipeline albeit staff augmentation projects
Great place if you want a mediocre and stagnant consulting career
Great place if you want to get a paycheck and tow the company line

Cons – - High level of nepotism among Directors and above; classic good ole boy network
- Bait and switch tactics - they talk about strategic projects during interview process, only to deliver staff augmentation projects building reports
- No thought leadership and lack of strategic vision - tool jockey heaven
- Very closed minded leadership - if they didn't originate the idea then "thanks but no thanks"
- Below average compensation
- No training
- No diversity in senior management and above

Advice to Senior Management – If you continue to manage from the ivory tower then you will continue to lose talent to your competitors; hire leaders who can talk the talk and walk the walk

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

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.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Salary..As compare with other companies in Pune, here you get good salary ..
I do not see any other reason to be in Hitachi

Cons – No policies no processes it’s like very small company its MNC just for name. Not good projects as well . No HR nothing

Advice to Senior Management – Most of the employees think there is no HR dept in the Hitachi Consulting, Pune. Please start considering employees as imp asset that just resource

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

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.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hitachi Consulting

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.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hitachi Consulting

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.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Not difficult to outperform co workers

Cons – Delivering long winded powerpoint presentations are more important than creating value for clients.

Cronyism is rife and backstabbing is part of the job.

Avoid!

Advice to Senior Management – Find out what your managers really do and decide if they are needed. Make business ethics a cornerstone of operation

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Opportunity to become part of a fast growing company
Opportunity to travel for consulting roles
Opportunity to work with various technologies and industries

Cons – Extreme lack of diversity from the Executive Leadership down, without any regard to making any changes
Priorties of "the firm" are the what you do (sales numbers, utilization), the how you accomplish is lower in importance - this says a lot about the culture of the company
Mentoring is not considered a key contribution - it is expected, but it is not valued
Technical training is not valued enough to set aside funding, the only way to get external training is if you find a project that can/will fund - thus you are limited to the technology of that project
Promotions are clearly about who you know and not about what you do

Advice to Senior Management – Until you value your people, truly value them, you will continue to see your strong performers walk out the door. Yes, this is to be expected from a consulting firm (as clearly stated by Phil Parr) - and yet somehow our competitors (those much more successful than HCC) have been able to identify ways to keep their strong performers and even add to them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend