In truth, the firm is (1) a run-of-the-mill bodyshop that (2) mostly does low-level grunt work for 3rd tier clients, is (3) filled with staff who may be jolly to have a pint with but lack even the most basic competency and skills needed to be a consultant, managed by (4) partners who are arrogant, self-absorbed, and toxic to the core and only care about their stock options (5) acquiring barely solvent firms filled with people everyone dreads working with. There is not a whiff of training, support, or mentorship to be found. The poor sods are thrown onto ridiculously scoped projects with ill-defined deliverables, sold by partners who somehow convinced clients we were experts in topics nobody in the firm has ever worked on. Literally a case of telling a client how to make the perfect cuppa when you’ve never even boiled water before. The internal staff Teams channel is filled with messages like, "just got staffed on a PMO support project, can anyone fill me in on how PMO works and send over some docs you used on previous clients?" The remainder of the project is spent re-using old slides from other clients and doing Google searches. 90% of the work is reshaping old deliverables to be relevant to current client. The firm is a talent vacuum, sucking the life out of anyone with an ounce of competence. As other commenters have said, I didn't know just how bad it was until I started speaking to recruiters and hiring managers. The word is out and it's telling that in over a decade of being in business and with hundreds of ex-employees (due to crazy high forced and voluntary attrition), only a tiny handful (fewer than a dozen) have ended up at an FTSE 100, MBB, T2, FAANG, PE, VC, IB. The only thing keeping all the staff from walking out is a rough job market and one that is only rougher with Elixirr on your CV. Yet despite all this, management repriced options for staff recently because they are aware of how many people are currently looking to leave.
