Trianz Reviews in Santa Clara, CA

Pros

They have a compelling vision and a growth strategy!

Cons

Staff Augmentation projects make you feel like a contractor than an employee of an organization.

Pros

- Entrepreneurs will have an easier time excelling at Trianz as it doesn't have much structure and process
- Nothing else

Cons

- No clear vision - 'being a Mckinsey is not a vision statement'
- No real capabilities
- Senior management lacks a defined vision

Advice to Senior Management

- Develop a niche and target it
- Differentiate from the big firms by focusing on advisory capabilities and not systems integration

Pros

Work-life balance
No travel
Limited but good set of clients

Cons

Leadership not very sharp and proactive
Treat employees like contractors - not employees
Acts more like a bodyshop
No knowledge sharing, training, etc.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees else they shall go away.

Pros

-Good company to start career with and learn
-Learning continues at all levels
-No or little travel involved while consulting
-Convenient "heart of Silicon Valley" location
-Very competent colleagues and healthy knowledge sharing atmosphere
-Diverse workforce
-Continuous Management support for all emplyee initiatives
-Employee focused

Cons

-Lacks the brand of a Big 5 type of company

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work

Pros

Better worklife balance than big "x" firms (Iittle to no travel)
Opportunity to learn via practical experience
Smart people willing to share / help out
Growth potential
Starting to sponsor formal certifications / training (e.g. PMP)

Cons

People get experience at one of the big clients and get stuck there for a long time
Challenges in matching roles to level of skills (sometimes people keep getting assigned to certain roles and they want to be in roles at the next level up)

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in developing your people, and don't forget the people within you can promote.

Pros

Trianz could be a very interesting experience for someone who likes challenges and is not frightened to work very hard. I'd good opportunities to learn all about hi tech processes especially around sales and service operations. This experience provided me opportunities to consult with Fortune companies and molded me well to take my career to the next level in consulting.

Cons

No brand equity outside Bay Area and lack of new initiatives in building new practices.

Advice to Senior Management

If you are serious about growing consulting practice, invest in building your brand.

Pros

Learning opportunites aboud if you are lucky, else you'll be shunted to do some pathetic abysmal work. I dont believe anyone works there out of choice.

Cons

Everything else. Sales and senior management promis arm and leg to the clients. Then force employees to match up. The leadership is delusional and not sure what kool aid is it drinking. Work-life balance doesnt exist.

Even after I left, I have kept in tocuh and LMAO whenever I get to read the emails that leadership and CEO sends out from time to time. Utterly clueless. Classic case of emperors without clothes.

Advice to Senior Management

Wakeup and smell coffee. And stop drinking the kool aid taht you guys have been drinking for nearly a decade now.

Pros

There are some positives at Trianz, such as the decent working hours, lack of travel, and the ability to take on substantial responsibilities on projects even as a consultant.

Cons

Complete lack of training and analytical frameworks. Seniror management has developed some fairly good approaches to analyzing client problems, but has not communicated them well to others at the firm. Pay is not great by management consulting standards, but about par for impelmentation firms.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve employee training. Make a commitment to ops consulting - it seems like most of the leadeship's emphasis is on bulidng up the technology services part of the firm whereas ops consulting seems to be slowly withering away.

Pros

None leap to mind; it is a source of income if there are no alternatives.

Cons

Long before what appears to be a recent, sharp decline, it was clear that the stage was being set for a serious prospect of decline. The push for contracts and business trumped all. No small number of good people were leaving... while the CEO strutted around like he was one of the wisest men in the world. That aside, his actions, those of other senior decision-makers made it abundantly clear that while they talked a great game about being impeccably honest people of virtue and integrity, they consistently did not qualify as such.

Advice to Senior Management

The only thought that comes to mind is probably too politically incorrect.

Pros

Nice People, Flexible work hours. Trianz allows for you to have a good work life balance and it does not require one to travel to customers. Having most of the work to their main client Cisco, allows one to plan his life quite easily

Cons

Company Balance Sheet not healthy, non-progression of career, Trianz is a distressed company and is trying to survive.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus and diversify clients - main focus in the past has been only Cisco