- Very apparent lack of D&I and overall empathy for employees
○ Lack of POC (and often tokenized when POC are hired), women in high positions (only 2 Consulting Principals are women), and little to no LGBTQ+ representation
○ Hiring a few token roles does NOT mean you are appropriately educating your employees or respecting POC; there are either a few or NO representatives from the Black and Latino / Hispanic communities
- Toxic culture created by favoritism, unqualified / young people in Manager and grades above, and poor management at Partner and C-suite level
- Elixirr markets a culture of innovation - you'll be lucky to work on anything innovative. It's a lot of PMO, TOM, the usual consulting work and rarely anything "innovative"
- "Lean" style of working which really means you are doing a lot of work for below market pay (not surprising for consulting, but it would be nice to be paid for the expectation and standard bar)
- CEO wants the entire firm to be managed around the UK team. This means there is little respect for time zones, cultural differences, etc. and creates an imbalance for those who are far from their colleagues geographically vs. those who go into the (ONLY) office to learn from others, get facetime with Partners, etc.
- They're very cheap and provide minimal support beyond the basic. For example, when COVID kicked off many companies helped their employees get setup at home with a desk, monitors, an ergonomic chair, etc. Elixirr did not offer at home support except for a on a case-by-case basis (re: favoritism)
- Lots of fear mongering, you can see this from the posts stating that most positive posts are forced. This is absolutely true, there are often conversations where Partners ask to have Glassdoor remove negative posts, which speaks to a larger problem. People are scared into not speaking up, not asking for support, and not providing less than positive feedback for fear of backlash on their opportunity to get a bonus, get promoted, etc.
