Protiviti Reviews in Chicago, IL Area

Pros

Lots of good experience right off the bat, good exposure to upper level management and executives and lots of room for growth if you are willing to dedicate yourself and work hard

Cons

travel can be excessive at times and is not evenly distributed, compensation is low compared to market and sometimes even internal salaries.

Advice to Senior Management

increase compensation for those you value; keep in tune with the employees needs and encourage a learning environment for continued growth and retention

Pros

Broad experience and the ability to develop a large network of capable individuals

Cons

One bad engagement or manager can make you miserable for the rest of your time there.

Pros

Flexibility willing to work with you when need time off.

Cons

Too spread out..,.no tight relationships...all statewide calling in.

Advice to Senior Management

To hire people who have experience and competence to conduct job.

Pros

-Opportunity to work on a variety of projects and locations

Cons

-Can be difficult to maintain personal obligations/responsibilities with the amount of travel required

Advice to Senior Management

N/A at this time

Pros

Protiviti has an upbeat, young culture. Their office in Chicago is very up-to-date and relatively trendy, especially compared to other consulting firms. Management has "open door" policies and are easily accessible.

Cons

Protiviti, being a smaller firm, doesn't have as many opportunities for entrepreneurial growth on projects (eg, networking within the organization and finding other projects you'd like to be staffed on).

Advice to Senior Management

It would be nice if management went further out of their way to explain strategies during economic downturns. Although Protiviti was well off, we didn't get to see proof very often.

Pros

Great First job out of college.
Great work atmosphere.
Understanding towards work / personal balance.
Focused on developing employees and allowing them to grow as people.
Intense focus on training.

Cons

Heavy amount of travel in most positions.
Weren't always pushed to succeed due to position structure.
Company began a tendency towards firing consultants after a couple of years in order to hire new consultants fresh out of college at a lower pay.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to focus on the importance of the employees. Molding key employees is vital and more important to the success and efficiency of the company rather than hiring younger/lower salary employees.

Pros

-Good work life balance
-Awesome training programs called "The Challenge" for all staff levels
-Great company culture, which is set by senior management

Cons

-compensation is low compared to that of its competitors, namely big four consulting
-reimbursement packages for advanced degrees and certification is uncompetitive

Advice to Senior Management

continue to set the tone for good work life balance and company culture. Training programs are phenomenal compared to that of other companies. keep it up

Pros

Great people, learn a lot of industries and business practices fast, excellent training programs

Cons

Consulting has a lot of travel, difficult to manage your career (ie choose industry, specialty, projects) if you are early in your career

Advice to Senior Management

To increase retention its important to manage employee preferences for specialties and project interests

Pros

Oustanding people to work with, making the best of a bad situation.

Cons

Management is completly disregards your personal life with excess overtime, travel, and ridiculous training at off peak hours (saturdays, etc.).

Advice to Senior Management

There is no real positive to working here beyond "having a job", if you dont change that you can probably expect a lot of turnover when things pick up.

Pros

The people are intelligent and the atmosphere is conducive to work.

Cons

Not a lot of work sometimes. Quality of a project depends on the quality of the seniors on the project, and some are terrible.

Advice to Senior Management

I know it is important to maintain client relationships, but make an effort to reach out to Seniors and Consultants.