Perficient Reviews

Pros

1. The international team, you can gain some experience from team members all around the world.
2. Not too busy compare to other employers

Cons

1. Salary is low compare to other employers
2. Too much travel
3. Like all other consulting firms, be ready to get laid off if there is no project

Advice to Senior Management

1. Increase the salary.
2. Talk to employees often
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Pros

Great local management in Minneapolis. Good, friendly coworkers. Focus is on local work, but travel is an option (sometimes it can be required depending on current portfolio). Billable hour bonus rewards you for working, along with an extra bonus for travelers.

Cons

Public company for no other reason than to enable inorganic growth through acquisition that has created a network of disjointed offices throughout the country. Best-performing offices appear to be Minneapolis, Denver, and Dallas. All offices "compete" against one another for revenue bragging rights. Very little cross-office collaboration. Pay is good, but annual increases can be minor. Pretty much a tech only consulting company - some BPM work, but no true management consulting.

Advice to Senior Management

Work on creating a cohesive culture across the offices. Stop growing through acquisition - create some real organic growth.

Pros

The compensation received is good

Cons

There is littile communication with managment

Pros

Great inner training for newbies (but not that helpful to experienced workers); simple interpersonal relationships; relatively fair opportunities to everyone.

Cons

As workers in China, badly treated by executives in the U.S., especially considering salary; fair working environment, but not that good.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn more about Chinese culture and what your Chinese employers (not their managers) think about you; current salary, career opportunity and working environment in Perficient China are uncompetitive.

Pros

Knowledgable team and competent management.

Cons

Not much offered in the way of new training

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

Would be a OK place for a traveling consultant or a contractor looking for short term work. Decent starting benefit package.

Cons

Senior Management is horrible and removed from the employees communication. You have to watch your back as many employees will do anything they can to get a title of Director. And many have that title who are not qualified. Get out of your cushy offices and generate revenue. How many Directors can you really have in one SBU folks!?

Advice to Senior Management

I dont believe management will take any advice to heart. They have an agenda and nothing will change that. Look at the hard working employees that deserve promotions and unload your underqualified Directors.

Pros

Get to travel a lot
Some very good people work for Perficient
Never had any issue with taking pre-planned vacations / holidays
Will be able to work in multiple client settings, varied experience

Cons

Cutthroat, honestly seems to be in short supply among many employees who are primarily concerned with personal advancement
Billing is the only thing important, developing careers, placement of right person in right position is only important if it meets the needs of Perficient, NOT of the employee's career desires or interests
1/3 of bonus is withheld and paid at the end of the next 6 month cycle, ends up seeming like a tool to improve retention
Perficient has higher turnover rates than other consulting firms
All offices function in different fashions and many projects staffed by multiple offices. Causes a lot of "well, it is their project" responses when issues arise with projects/client/internal management.

Advice to Senior Management

True value comes in making the employees happy, productive and helping them grow. When you don't offer training/education because you don't want to invest and then have the employees leave, you end up with a lot of employees who don't have extra training/education. Is that really the correct staffing model?
It feels like you are holding the bonuses hostage to improve retention.
Varied pay and experience levels for people with same titles across the offices, this doesn't help moral
Your words say, employees are our most value assets, but your actions don't always

Pros

Perficient has great people, good compensation, flexible schedule, and great benefits. I have been surprised by the open door attitude of upper management.

Cons

Perficient is growing really fast and there can be pressure to keep up. This can be fun but hectic occasionally.

Advice to Senior Management

I like the open communication fostered by upper management but it would help if we knew more about the future direction of the company.

Pros

Great Co-workers, very knowledgeable and intelligent.
Very competitive benefits with a lot of paid time off
Ability to gain lots of experience

Cons

Not enough time spent on individual's growth opportunities and career paths
Not a very strong bonus structure
Not much opportunity to move around within company

Pros

1. Good long term career growth prospect
2. Excellent compensation

Cons

1. Brand name of the company

Advice to Senior Management

1. Develop the brand