Protiviti Reviews

Pros

Depends on what projects you work on, the experience can be really great (fun traveling, good hours, challenging but not impossible work, great team members). There are individuals in the office that are of nurturing and supportive nature and are able to provide guidance on professional as well as personal growth.

Cons

Then there are other projects where the hours are long and you wouldn't feel as supported by the management when managers are swamped themselves with multiple demanding projects going on.

Advice to Senior Management

provide training to current employees on potential solutions/services so that people are ready to take on a variety of projects.

Pros

Protiviti caters to young, ambitious business professionals right out of college that are looking to get their feet wet in the real world. They offer a relatively competitive salary and benefits package that will certainly draw your attention.

As a consultant, you'll work directly at the client site and perform a variety of different tasks in various forms depending on the engagement type and line of business. Overall, you'll develop a broad understanding of each business process as it relates to accounting/finance.

Cons

- Work life balance: doesn't exist. Your engagement manager's will often work you long into the evening
- No OT: Quite simple- we aren't paid for the extra hours of work we put in
- Promotions: they promote on a calendar basis with little to no respect to your work ethic
- Project teams: Protiviti promotes a team based structure, however, you'll oftentimes be stuck working at the client site by yourself on loan staffed projects
- Upward feedback: Absolute lack of upward feedback channels and acknowledgment of lower management "work horses"
- Turnover: Protiviti will work you until you are unable to tolerate it any longer

Advice to Senior Management

- Management should create incentives, whether they be salary based, bonus, stock options (for consultants and senior consultants) for their personnel.
- They should re-structure the pay to be hourly from salary
- They should create communication channels for upward feedback

Pros

Great Place to get started

Cons

Protiviti needs to learn how to train their employees to become future leaders.

Advice to Senior Management

Train your employees to be leaders

Pros

-very intelligent people
-younger employees receive great responsibility and are given great autonomy
-fair compensation and benefits
-great work/life balance

Cons

-poor communication from management
-certain groups operate in silos
-certain groups are more favored than others
-lack of informational resources

Advice to Senior Management

-stop trying to implement so much change in a short amount of time
-a focus on solutions is difficult when so many individuals in management have audit backgrounds

Pros

Excellent mentoring program
Support for obtaining professional certifications
Good perks and benefits
Managing Directors are approachable and have open-door policies

Cons

Stuffy and overly formal workplace
Heavily dependent upon staffing new college grads with little experience
Culture where promotions are expected based on employment duration, not performance
Struggling to expand service offering other than Internal Audit or SOX work
Too timid in making changes to their service offering

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in mid and senior level professionals who will add more value to your engagements. Must aggressively expand service offerings.

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

Industry exposure, some good managers that actually make the project fun, good hours, strong sense of team, some control over which client group you can work for

Cons

audit was boring, some clients were very unglamorous, no sense of compensating for long drives, slow path to promotion, cult like

Advice to Senior Management

be truthful to your employees. dont feed us with lies about growth when you layoff 40% of the staff within a 2 month period

Pros

Work / life balance
Excellent internship and mentoring program
The people
4 weeks vacation
Fairly safe financial backing from Robert Half International

Cons

Lower pay compared with industry or competing firms
Work can be monotonous if you get stuck on a SOX project
"Good 'ol boys" upper management that plays favorites
Publicly traded and very concentrated on hitting numbers

Advice to Senior Management

Need a consistent strategy going forward from the top brass. Very impressed with local management, but I can't say the same for organization as a whole. Max Messmer, however, is probably one of the better CEO's out there (RHI).

Pros

Protiviti is a good place to work - solid co-workers. Additionally, the culture is also strong based off of the Andersen Roots.

Cons

Currently the ownership structure (sub of Robert Half) is not desireable, as RHI often times meddles in the management of day to day operations.

Advice to Senior Management

See Con: Currently the ownership structure (sub of Robert Half) is not desireable, as RHI often times meddles in the management of day to day operations.

Pros

The best thing about Protiviti hands down is the people. There are great people to work for and with. Pay is decent for the job. Work life balance is pushed.

Cons

Travel can be quite high (100% of the year). Bonus structure is not the best laid out plan. A lof the work is SOX related.

Advice to Senior Management

Rotate individuals on teams and different types of projects and industries while they are at the staff/senior level so they have the experience to become managers.