Baringa Partners Reviews

Pros

Great coaching and development, people genuinely help when you need it (and know their stuff), and a massive focus on culture. I feel like I can be myself and not a ‘corporate version’.

Advice to Management

Keep the ratio of partners to Non-partners. We have great access to your experience and want to keep it that way.

Pros

Culture, Client Base, Variety, Opportunity

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.

Advice to Management

Think globaly; operationally, as well as commercially.

Pros

super awesome work very interesting great team

Pros

Dynamic, personable leaders, lots of people who care, a team able to make things happen autonomously

Pros

Amazing People-oriented culture which was heavily marketed before I joined and has proven genuine through out my first couple of months
Very client-centric approach in which the needs and priorities of clients are really clearly at the heart of our work

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you are doing!

Pros

After a number of years, I feel gratefull for Baringa inviting me to a world of consulting from industry.
They took a leap of faith. I did as well. It paid out for both - in revenues, and mutual development.

I arrived at the time when company was small enough for senior team to immediately know your name when bumping with you at the elevator. We are bigger now. Being bigger allows to go after bigger goals...it also comes with acceptance of growth pains...and enjoying those....

We are an FT 2018 no 1 consultancy in utilities alongside McKinsey - deep niche expertise, great people, clients being served flexibly and devotedly. And at better rates than certain competitors....

I can not vouch for non-energy, but based on people whom I do know in other BUs from famed social get aways, common courses and informal drinks/dinners , we deserve a similar ranking in FS and other new areas of work at the very least from “great people” and “passion” perspective....

Now for those of us, enjoying models, I gonna test Baringa through PERK (Purpose, Engagement, Resilience, Kindness) to arrive to my 8/10 Glass full.

1. Purpose.
Clearly, we are moving towards a transformational global advisory firm with deep industry expertise, be it at energy, finance or even a temp theme such as Brexit.
And our, inspirational, management leads the way jn finding ways to keep selling work - with differing success, which is a reality of consulting. So here is 8/10.

To get to 10, the firm already started rewarding the appropriate business development behaviour. In my personal view, an advisory firm thrives when it sells interesting work, which at turn motivates people (see 2 below).

2. Engagement.
Great people, who are all brilliant to work together. A true pleasure. 10/10

3. Resilience.
In consulting, flexibility and time pressure is what you sign up to. Key is how as a team, and firm you support this. Baringa since last year puts great effort in courses, leadership attention on WLB, mental health etc. 7/10.

To go to 10, is I think impossible - one needs to select when hiring people who are able to say No, but deliver when it matters, and if needed work to late night to flexibly go to a long breakfast with loved ones next day. CEO encourages such behaviour - himself a family man - and this is a great feature. WLB for advisory means ability to prioritise, and work hard when it matters, and relax afterwards to prepare for next hill.

4. Kindness
How are we treating each other when we get bad news? Do we care? Do we ask about one’s holiday? Do we bring each other tea when its cold in office? Do we smile when seeing each other?
We do....see above.
This does not mean one is not confronted if sales targets, or utilisation, are not adressed. After all, its consulting - so kindness goes with together making profits....10/10

Advice to Management

Keep hiring great people - like you do...

And lets change tradition of annual thank you to partners for keeping up with flexible work - it is from old times; now often both have a career....do keep inviting partners those to dinners like in Shard or Guildhall....that work wonders...

Pros

- Open door policy
- There was a time when leadership was open to listening to improvement
- Work-life balance
- Relaxed dress code

Advice to Management

Try to think differently for a start. Work on your insecurities. Be humble, fair and transparent.

Let your work speak for itself, not your loud mouths!

Pros

When I worked in the company it had some decent financial incentives if you travel regularly.

Advice to Management

My advice is to the employees - Leave; Just leave and don't look back. It will be OK. You will look back and feel so much better.

Pros

Company events, CEO, benefits, Recruitment team, location