North Highland Reviews

Current Employee – been working at North Highland full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Empowers employees to own their careers.
Not an up-or-out culture.
Seeks employee input.
Employee-owned company.

Cons – Not competive compensation / base salary.
Highly relational culture -- both a pro and con.

Advice to Senior Management – Align all employees to their salary bands.
Reward high performing employees with higher salaries.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at North Highland full-time for less than a year

Pros – People really care about the company, bonuses are good

Cons – Low base salary, well under the market. Small branch leadership can be very poor. They are trying to be a business consulting company, but are mostly a business project management firm. Majority of the work is staff augmentation.

Advice to Senior Management – Strengthen branch leadership, build a brand where employees don't have to do staff augmentation work all day and business development all night.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at North Highland full-time

Pros – The story and culture of the firm feels great.
Live, work an play locally.
Rewards can be great at large and stable clients.
Employee owners - a good stock plan that grows YoY.
Employee has career control to determine work life balance.

Cons – A number of local offices outside of Atlanta are growth and management challenged.
Weak offices have high client and employee turnovers. Rewards and advancement are impacted.
Employee owners - 7 year vesting. low motivation for employee retention since stocks are distributed to remaining employees as an additional bonus when you leave.
Selling is a requirement that will impact your bottom line and possibly employment.
Choosing a good work life balance can translate to impacted reviews, rewards and advancement.
Most projects end up being staff augmentation roles.
Many leaders are generalist that lack depth and expertise which means selling staff aug roles.
Little known outside Atlanta.

Advice to Senior Management – Retain the real great employees and out with the entrenched leads that keep the firm a staff aug firm that is everything to everyone. Put the proud culture into practice to reward and retain employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at North Highland full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Consulting work, with out weekly travel
Incredible people - some of the best I've ever worked with
Vision for how they will evolve the company and continue to maintain the culture
Sparks Grove could be a game changer in the Marketing Services arena

Cons – Not very well known in the market, outside of Atlanta - though we are putting emphasis on changing that.

Low base salary, comparatively. Bonus structure is nice, but it can be hard to figure out how to make it work for you and hard to completely realize until you get embedded on an account and begin to build relationships within NH and on the client side

Loosing a lot of good talent b/c of salary.

Trying to get away from staff aug work, but seems that this has been harder to do - especially at some clients - than we would like.

Promotion process is not as transparent as it could be

Advice to Senior Management – Watch the culture
Fix the salary problem at manager / sr. manager level

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at North Highland

Pros – Great culture with structure to reinforce it

Cons – Pay is not in line with where the firm aspires to go

Advice to Senior Management – Find a way to make it less of a financial sacrifice to join the firm

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at North Highland full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good work life balance, company culture and decent project work

Cons – Low base salary, complex bonus structure, mediocre benefits

Advice to Senior Management – Increase base pay, more strategic client work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at North Highland full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good amount of flexibility to work within and around your practice area. Definite focus on work life balance and employee development.

Cons – Some of the projects are sold with generic resources. I think this devalues the project work and the consultant who is staffed to the assignment.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at North Highland full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Paid by the hour for overtime (any billable hours over 30/week as long as you average 30/week for the entire quarter).
There are numerous other ways to get bonuses.
Low to no travel. Local model. We work and live where our clients do.
We are growing like crazy.
The company quite simply has the most incredible leadership team.
They really do care about doing a great job for our clients.

Cons – I really can't think of any, but in order to meet the 20 word minimum, I would say that it's hard to make friends with my co-workers. We're always at the client sites and many times we're on 1 person projects. Or if we're not, the company has a very experienced employee base, which means most of them are busy with family life and don't do a lot of hanging out together.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work. I think you are doing an incredible job.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at North Highland full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The fellow consultants were a great group of highly motivated people. I truly loved working for our key accounts in the area and solving their problems and being a resource to them. I felt like an owner when I joined the company and really hoped to stay for the rest of my career.

Cons – The local leadership changes prevented any real continuity and the heavy focus on growing the oil and gas business led to some short-sightedness in other areas. The pay was generally somewhat less than could be earned at other local consulting companies or larger ones.

Advice to Senior Management – Trust and invest in your people more.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at North Highland full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great people, positive culture, collaborative environment, numerous opportunities to contribute to firms's growth, you're not just a number, exciting global growth, adopts new technologies/capabilities quickly...

Cons – Don't have the brand recognition with new clients compared to bigger firms, smaller project wins/teams, limited analyst-level support

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to be transparent with employees with corporate financials, the annual meetings are great motivators, maintain the culture that we have even as we continue to grow

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company