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    FTI Consulting Reviews

    Updated July 14, 2018
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    FTI Consulting President & CEO Steven H. Gunby
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    Pros

    • "great PTO and salary great work life balance" (in 41 reviews)

    • "Simple, and nice work environment" (in 31 reviews)

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    1. Featured Review

      "Consultant"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at FTI Consulting full-time

      Pros

      Laid back culture
      Office snacks
      Very flexible office attire (dependent on industry)

      Cons

      Top heavy; Ambiguity in growth for consultant and senior consultants

      Advice to Management

      Provide more clear purpose and mission for maintaining talent

    2. "Culture"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at FTI Consulting full-time

      Pros

      culture, compensation, colleagues, travel opportunities

      Cons

      unpredictable work schedule and business development pressure.

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    3. "FTI has big wingspan that can nurture or cast a shadow"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Washington, DC
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Washington, DC
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at FTI Consulting full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Large company, always busy, meet lots of interesting professional contacts

      Cons

      Disjointed parts do not make a whole

      Advice to Management

      Create one culture

    4. "Analyst"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at FTI Consulting full-time

      Pros

      People, benefits, nice office,

      Cons

      Nothing interesting about the work.

    5. "Director"

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      Current Employee - Director
      Current Employee - Director
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at FTI Consulting full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Colleagues are supportive; culture is positive

      Cons

      Salary is low, especially for Bay Area

      Advice to Management

      Provide career development opportunities for staff

    6. "Managing Director"

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      Current Employee - Managing Director in Washington, DC
      Current Employee - Managing Director in Washington, DC
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at FTI Consulting full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Great culture. Team approach to addressing client needs. Flexible work environment. Challenging and stimulating case work for those interesting in stretching and growing.

      Cons

      Work life balance can be a challenge. Work often involves late night, weekend work to attend to urgent client needs. Very little down time.

      Advice to Management

      Focus more on training and ways to balance work.

    7. "Intern"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      Great culture with driven people

      Cons

      Low level of responsibility starting out

    8. "Better consulting firms out there"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at FTI Consulting full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Decent compensation. Some teams are very strong. Some projects are better than others.

      Cons

      Disclaimer: these characteristics are not consistent across the firm, but they are more prevalent across certain teams. Do your homework before joining a specific team.

      Favoritism and inner office politics need to be reeled in. For some SMDs, it’s more important for you to be golfing/drinking buddies with senior leadership vs. the quality of your work.

      Environment of some teams discouraged independent thinking. Questioning or disagreeing with some MDs can be viewed in an unfavorable manner and receive a negative response from the MD.

      They promote a “roll up our sleeves attitude” but some MDs feel that they are above certain levels of work and will not (or cannot) do it.

      Advice to Management

      Be more involved/engaged with junior level employees. Change up the current methodology of year end reviews and promotions. It’s too subjective and can be highly influenced by who is in the room.

      Encourage MDs to embrace more humility when working on projects. This includes actually “rolling up their sleeves” when it comes to heavy lifting and understanding that more junior level employees may have a better answer/solution.

      Less arm chair quarterbacking and more proactive involvement.

    9. Helpful (3)

      "variety of experiences - some very good and some very bad"

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      Former Employee - Senior Consultant
      Former Employee - Senior Consultant
      Recommends
      Negative Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at FTI Consulting full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      You get exposure really quickly to a variety of projects and teams. Some senior teams/managing directors are really great and others are extremely painful. If you can get into a good team here then you can get promoted really quickly. The pay is generally good - better than big-4 but lower than other private consulting firms.

      Cons

      Some teams have extremely poor culture and very long work hours. The utilization bonuses are large but still make the bad teams not worth it.

      Advice to Management

      You should get feedback from non-SMD employees about SMDs to incorporate into their performance reviews. For example, I worked with one SMD in particular who was essentially verbally abusive to everybody on the team. Everybody on that particular team left FTI soon after the project.

    10. "Review"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at FTI Consulting full-time

      Pros

      Good for now, nothing more to add

      Cons

      Nothing to report over here

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