Great firm - tight knit and collaborative - Senior Analyst Kearney Employee Review

5.0
Feb 7, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

High energy and youthful environment, strong focus on professional development and engaged senior staff. The projects tend to run long but you are typically only staffed on one at a time - versus the 2-3 that you see with other firms.

Cons

Team leadership can be mixed. Some managers are rockstars and others are pretty lackluster. Work/life balance is typical of a management consulting firm: they spend lots of time talking about part-time, balanced workloads, etc., but at the end of the day, expect to work long into the evenings and at least one afternoon of the weekend.

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Cons

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Pros

If you’re fresh out of school and don’t have a specific skill and don’t know what to do, and you’re willing to be a yes man then yes it might be a good place to figure out your next step.

Cons

- Lack of pipeline for certain practices (and they will blame that on you saying your utilization is low but there’s nothing you can do at an associate level) - Full of people that feel good about themselves but they actually knows nothing about how actual industry work - No talent - Management will give you vague feedback that you can’t act on, For example, I got asked to “elevate the deck” but when I asked is it the messaging or is it the format etc they can’t give me anything specific - The expectation on work quality is inconsistent - Some manager level people can’t do excel which is shocking - You need to be a people pleaser in order to get promoted

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