Finalta Employee Reviews about "culture"

Pros

- Entrepreneurial, high growth culture - Amazing place to start your career & progress upwards - Opportunities to develop a very diverse skillset (problem solving, analytics, client management, leadership, business development) - Interesting content, particularly on digital banking - Backed by McKinsey & Co

Cons

- Projects are cyclical and there are "crunch" periods - Opportunities to better leverage technology to scale the business

Pros

- possibility to advance fast - generally modest travel required - relatively small team thus not just a small part in a big clock - now part of McK thus prestige of company - thorough training in calculation programs

Cons

- for the amount to work substantially underpaid - Extremely rigid culture (e.g. if you would arrive a few minutes late to work you would get a warning. BUT people have life outside especially when working long hours. Allow reasonable flex time) no feeling of a team - bad work life balance - VERY bad benefits - No mistake culture, any mistakes seems to be punished. No desire to innovate or take risks - arms length relationship with management (transactional, you perform then you get rewarded financially, yet not other form of recognition) - The employees is held to thankful to be able to start working at the company. No feeling of that employee has outside market valeu - Purpose of work, engagement of employees, thinking outside of the box not valued to the slightest

Pros

Exposure and responsibility, entrepreneurial culture

Cons

Low pay, long hours, and questionable management

Pros

- Great culture with a fun analyst/consultant team - Nice office space and access to McKinsey perks - Encourages entrepreneurial spirit and the quick growth of the company makes this possible - Early exposure to clients and senior management with opportunities to quickly increase responsibility

Cons

- Long hours during busy times (about 2 months per year) - Experience can differ drastically across the offices (other cons I see around no travel and low salary don't really apply to the Chicago office) - Tend to let pockets of bad leadership stay in place much longer than they should

Pros

Very collaborative culture Close collaboration with McKinsey colleagues Good for building/ enhancing your banking knowledge

Cons

Job can get a bit repetitive Progression criteria are not fully clear

Pros

Friendly people/great culture Good staff benefits Great office location Flexible working Inclusive

Cons

Admin salaries are low compared to market. Unclear promotion/ development structure for admin staff Compensation and job satisfaction is focused on the benchmarking staff

Pros

- Its part of McKinsey (Good branding, access to their e-learning resources and best non-Salary benefits and health insurance). Networking opportunities if you try - Supportive and fun team mates - Good working culture - Steep learning curve at the start. Good learning opportunity for newbies and career switchers - Unique data driven insights from huge data base can impress clients - Responsibility given and client ownership even as an analyst - Management tries to care about your wellbeing - Good working hours compared to McKinsey consultants

Cons

- Although part of McKinsey, the culture, operations, management, values are separate. Training is not as thorough, less committed to your personal and career development (compared to McKinsey) - You have to be extremely detail oriented working with large data sets to do well in this job - No travel - Can be exhausting and mundane to do the analyst role of collecting and checking client data especially after multiple changes from client. Processes are long and still very manual, it's easy to be bored after awhile. Most of project time is spent doing this instead of the actual analysis. A lot of room for errors - Data base is huge but not well organized - High attrition rate can affect morale - Long notice period limits exit options - Internal moves within McKinsey do not seem to be encouraged

Pros

Good working culture, colleges speak difference languages

Cons

Travel way too much

Pros

Quick learning and development possibility Values and the culture of the company creates a great atmosphere based on meritocracy and respect Fairly good hours considering it's consulting :) You can have meaningful work from the beginning and managers are supportive of your development Growing company with new opportunities to grow internally

Cons

Sometimes externally hired managers have really different culture so it's much harder to work with them.

Pros

- Focusing on one industry (banking, insurance or telecom) allows to develop a strong knowledge of this industry (and quickly become an expert) - Good exposure to clients and to data management process (from day 1) - Positive culture overall - Can lead to good exits

Cons

- Low salary compared to hours - Slow progression (very varied between teams) - Important turnover impacting the London office culture negatively