Dishonest Leadership, Toxic Culture, Business Adrift - Senior Consultant Rios Partners Employee Review

1.0
Jun 24, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Most of the co-workers are friendly, supportive, and some are interested in solving interesting problems. Work-life balance is pretty decent the majority of the time (compared to other traditional consulting firms)

Cons

In agreement with most other assessments in here: dishonest, duplicitous, incompetent leadership -- beware. Business is adrift and leadership has not been able to achieve their growth goals. Instead of being honest and doing regular workforce reduction, leadership tries to maintain the mirage and they push people out with dodgy and surprising PIPs. They have abused this practice and the cat is out of the bag, provoking a morale problem inside. As the company falters, leadership becomes more interested in running a junior consultant bootcamp (following certain cookie-cutting powerpoint and briefing templates) instead of solving the clients' problems. The company talks a big talk about their values (great on paper) but it practices zero of it. The company has been driving away creative, experienced, and talented individuals and has been keeping instead very junior and inexperienced individuals; the problem is that the Rios leadership doesn't seem to have the talent to compensate for that.

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Rios Partners Response
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Thank you for your feedback about your experience at Rios Partners. We're glad you enjoyed your co-workers, and that we provide a work-life balance. We take performance management very seriously and we're sorry the process did not meet your expectations.

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