Hitachi Consulting Reviews in Denver, CO Area

Pros

The people I work with are great. The benefits are good and overall they won't make you work too hard. If you are married or have a family they are extremely accomodating.

Cons

You will now have to travel close to 100% of the time. There is not a lot of opportunity for advancement. if you are one of the lucky few to get a promotion you will be disappointed by the meager salary increases.

Advice to Senior Management

The reorganization is not benefitting anyone but senior management. I've been with the company for a few years and frankly it's hard to drink the kool-aid anymore. I don't see a future for myself here long term.

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

Smaller management consulting company where experience can be gained. A pretty good springboard to the larger management consulting companies. Some great comraderie among the working teams who are typically younger consultants.

Cons

Have - have not culture where you are either a consultant working long hours for below industry pay, or you are an executive working banking hours for a healthy paycheck. High level of office politics at times as some consultants manuever to become executive favorites. Not an environment for the timid.

Advice to Senior Management

Temper the general opinion of favortism in the performance review by making that an objective and open process. Allow employees to formally review their managers to identify management issues. Close the wage inequity gap between consultants and management.

Pros

Smart people, good clients and challenging work

Cons

- New national operating model is not for everyone
- Hitachi Consulting lacks the scale to support a true national industry and solution organization structure that targets billion dollar and above companies
- Organization model changes will continue to drive high turnover for those people interested in true work life balance
- Hitachi Consulting has effectively moved away from working with mid-market companies

Advice to Senior Management

Hold on tight, turnover in the coming months/years is going to be very high

Pros

Great people.
Good culture in former Andersen cities.
Up and coming practice. Strong leadership.

Cons

Value proposition has changed. Used to be a place that provided a culture of local work over travel. Now they have changed to a national model and no longer have p/l at the local market. Salaries for people who travel now have not been moved commensurate with value proposition change.

Advice to Senior Management

Get back to leveraged model and make sure you have consistency in how people are working on engagements. SM's should not be doing SC work.

Pros

Opportunities to try different types of projects
Many opportunities for training/learning
Great people to work with

Cons

At times (depending on project assignment), work/life balance can be difficult
Across all of our locations, levels are not equal (meaning a Senior Consultant in one location doesn't have the same core skills as a Senior Consultant in another location)

Advice to Senior Management

Keep lines of communication open

Pros

The people are wonderful
Management understands that challenges of personal/worklife balance
There are many opportunities to learn and develop skills

Cons

Salary is sub par
Strategy is unclear
Change away from a local focus has caused many to reconsider if they are interested in working here

Advice to Senior Management

I would suggest that communication of our direction and strategy be better conveyed. Additionally I would suggest that the firm consider the impact of the new strategy and target key resources that they are interested in retaining.

Pros

Regional model w/ limited travel (caveat - reorg to national model will affect this to an unknown degree)
Reorganization announcement that may address some of the historic and cultural issues
A good place to start a career as a junior business consultant

Cons

Historically entrenched management with a dated world view of the consulting industry.
Compensation (salary, benefits, bonus) not competitive.
Subjective performance evaluations favor a narrow selection of employees.
Low morale and high attrition rate for consultants that are specialists, technology-focused, senior in experience or high-performers.

Advice to Senior Management

Get clear about Hitachi's business model and create a singular message to both your staff and your customers about that model. If it is a general continuance of commodity and supplemental consulting, embrace that message and identity with your staff and customers. If it is to be a new model of value-add and specialist consulting, ensure executive experience and acceptance with that model, and replace existing counterproductive metrics and staffing processes with new ones that will attract and retain top talent.

Pros

The people provide a great working atmosphere.

Cons

A smaller firm trying to compete with the larger firms, competitive pay is hard to come by.

Advice to Senior Management

Business decisions should be transparent regardless of what level the employee is

Pros

The people I work with are amazing....too bad the company doesn't focus on retaining them.

Cons

The pay is horrible and promotions are based on time at level only.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay the people who deserve it more and understand that time at level doesn't mean anything. User your objective critieria that you have spent so much time on or edit that but don't hold people back based on time and don't promote people based on time.