PA Consulting Reviews

Current Employee – been working at PA Consulting full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great people, good working environment, interesting projects going on.

Cons – Lack of quick promotion path for outstanding individuals.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay more attention to US market.

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

Current Employee – been working at PA Consulting full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great freedom to progress career at your own pace and in any direction. Good compensation and exciting work. Great people, with a small team feel. Different from other firms.

Cons – Small footprint in the US and size of client assignments here is small. Weaker brand in the US. Very risk averse. Company has not grown in last 10 years.

Advice to Senior Management – Be less risk averse and try to grow the business, especially in the US. Get better networked in the US at the board level of large companies. Employ more local sales people.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at PA Consulting full-time for more than a year

Pros – - great work/life balance
- flexibility in working from any location
- depending on how you position yourself, could get on really interesting assignments you want
- majority of colleagues are friendly and collaborative
- many opportunities to get involved internally

Cons – - low brand recognition in US
- you could get stuck on a long-term, monotonous project
- high importance on utilization

Advice to Senior Management – publish more, be more active in conferences, get the PA name out

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at PA Consulting full-time

Pros – good benefits and rather collaborative on junior ranks

Cons – hard for new joiners to break in, particularly in high ranking jobs

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at PA Consulting full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Entrapreneurial
Talented staff
Opportunity for growth limited only by your ambition

Cons – Small boutique with little brand awareness in U.S.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to build brand awareness
Adjust rates to be more competitive with major big 4 competitors

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

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

Pros – Smart people, one global culture, holds on to talent in down times, shows caring and compassion for people

Cons – Why pa is continually giving money back to shareholders is beyond my comprehension. Is this just a way to keep the cash out of chairman Jon's hands because he will waste it on another silly venture? That's it isn't it, that's the only way to keep the cash safe? Distribute it. Why couldnt we invest it in growing the core business?

Advice to Senior Management – Stop managing for dissolution of the company. It feels like we're waiting for somebody to turn the lights off and we all go home. Couldn't we think of useful ways to spend 100mm GNP?

Current Employee – been working at PA Consulting full-time for more than a year

Pros – interesting work, lots of variety, organic

Cons – some practices are run differently hard to know your trajectory

Advice to Senior Management – more interaction with academic experts is needed

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

Current Employee – been working at PA Consulting full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good colleagues, international work opportunities, rapid career advancement, very smart co-workers

Cons – Low pay, not awareness of this firm in the marketplace, small firm so not same number of colleagues as at the bigger firms

Advice to Senior Management – Pay your people better. Need better IT

Current Employee – been working at PA Consulting

Pros – Nice people to work with in general
As Senior Management are rewarded for $ sales this "clouds" their judgement on approaching work on a number of fronts
Good verity of training offered, however....

Cons – A bit English and "clicky"
To small in the US to be effective and can't recruit the right people to grow the business
Training seem to be to much role playing and " This is how you did it wrong" after the fact.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at PA Consulting

Pros – Interesting work. Some top people. Very cost concsious management systems which serve them well in slow periods. A large number of offices provides some international insight.

Cons – Technically a second-rate consulting firm with a few exceptions. The best predictor of success at PA is learning to manage to the complex financial and performance systems and learning to share/grab sales and operations credit on a job by job basis. The place is a money making machine for senior partners, not a client-focused business. That's lip service. I've seen many partners gouge clients and pad bills because their bonus was calculated on above the line profitabilily. So overcharging (above published rates) is highly profitable.

Advice to Senior Management – Reward merit rather than rewarding those who play the game well and develop credit-sharing arrangements. Note that new partners, despite industry expertise and past success always fail at PA because they do not have these in-place support groups.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend