Baringa Partners Reviews

Pros

- The opportunities you get to develop yourself are excellent. Senior staff take a lot of time to give you feedback and help you improve your ways of working. The people you work with are very good at what they do and there are plenty of opportunities to learn from them. I find that I have developed rapidly since joining Baringa. - It's a great environment to develop your career. There are continuous opportunities to take on greater challenges and increase your responsibility within the firm. You can also get excellent career mentors at Baringa, who will challenge you and help you to push your career in the direction that you want to go. There are also four promotion rounds a year. - The social network and the support network you get at Baringa is incredible. We have an excellent work social life, with plenty of opportunities for fun. The teams that you work with also provide a lot of support to you make sure that you are getting the help you need to work well both off and on client site. - You can really shape the company with your own ideas and initiatives. Baringa is always on the look out for new opportunities, and if you have an area that you are passionate about or interested in Baringa is a great environment to pursue this.

Cons

- Baringa has been a bit slow to think 'global' as an organisation, despite now having offices in several countries (and continents!). Baringa is making progress in this area, but it should continue to think globally, in order to work effectively from an operational point of view and best serve its clients.

Pros

Baringa’s biggest selling point is genuinely caring about its people whilst providing challenging work and the opportunity to grow. Like many others I left a larger consulting firm to join based on better culture and work life balance. I was worried that the good rep was just branding, but still here almost five years later and wouldn’t go back to a big firm.

Cons

Individual projects can still be tough/boring, but it’s definitely not a Baringa-only issue. Some senior leadership stick to their big four way of managing which is at conflict with company values and culture.

Pros

Good parties and really fun people to work with. We do interesting work and there is scope for moving sectors within the company.

Cons

The main problem is workload. There is constantly far too much work to be done, resulting in people working all hours and then getting stressed. This is a business decision, by the partners at the top of the company. If they took less in profits out of the business and employed more staff the workload issue could be eliminated. But the partners want to emulate the obscene incomes seen at other consultancies. The managing partner earned £7m last year. That's the equivalent of 200 analysts! Baringa is making a big deal of its BCorp status, but I don't see how you can be a progressive company when you have such extreme extraction of wealth from the partners, at the expense of the workers wellbeing. Luckily, there is a very easy fix to this, the partners just need to show a little restraint and let the workforce get their lives back.