Finalta Employee Reviews about "hour"

Pros

Great benefits and company culture

Cons

Long hours in peak period

Pros

Good work environment, exposure to clients, ability to grow fast

Cons

Long working hours during peak delivery time

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

Good for people who like working with data and creating a story out of it

Cons

Really depends who you work with and whether you get along. A lot of politics. Processes are quite inefficient making work stressful and ending up in long hours

Pros

+ Good people; little ego or politics compared to most consulting firms + Very social, friendly culture. Frequent (unofficial) work drinks + High performers can progress quite quickly (entry-level to team leader within ~3yrs) + Personal training budget (although few people use this given long working hours tend to prevent people from having the time) + The business is exploring new markets and projects, which opens new opportunities for employees

Cons

- Work-life balance can be atrocious at times, particularly at analyst level, and senior management appears to view this as an acceptable situation - Fairly low salaries for the market, especially at analyst level, although bear in mind it can grow quite fast if you do well - The pace of work oscillates wildly between dull, repetitive drudgery and overly stressful crunch periods (where the work can be interesting, but the workload too intense); it's hard to find the right balance between being challenged/motivated and not being overworked - Opportunity to learn transferable technical skills on the job is very limited, unless you have some reason to want to learn Alteryx - The feedback process doesn't really work very well; most feedback is channeled through your line manager rather than coming from each colleague directly, which can mean things get lost in translation or completely forgotten about until your performance review. They do an anonymous 360 feedback review 2x per year which, as nice as it sounds, just removes people's incentive to get good at giving fair, constructive feedback the rest of the year, given they can say whatever they want (whether helpful or not) via an anonymous survey.

Pros

Compensation vs working hours - either salaries should be adjusted, or the hours should be reduced and regulated. Some people work on weekends on a regular basis and that's not heathy environment for the company.

Cons

Finalta provides you with access to the world banking industry via huge amount of data, the library of best practices and solid knowledge base. So this place would be very much appeal to those with genuine interest in that sphere. You'll love it indeed! Integration with McKinsey has its own pros and cons. Although you get access to McKinsey resources, trainings and network, they are still the ultimate owner which means in some cases Finalta doesn't have much freedom. The transitions is still in progress so hopes are the proper way of collaboration will be achieved.

Pros

- Small team environment - Senior client exposure from day 1 - Lots of opportunity for progression as business grows - Chance to get involved in lots of business activities outside of client work - Bonus and promotion triggers are transparent to all and meritocratic

Cons

- Some long hours and travel required during client delivery - Less formal training than most larger firms

Pros

- Company cares about the employees - Very nice colleagues (no gossip or prejudiced/judgemental people) - Flexible working hours (I read a comment below where is written that you get a warning when you're 10 minutes late, I don't think that is true at all. I never heard of anyone that got a comment) - No 'go up or go out' principle (meaning you can take as much time as you need to get promoted, they will promote you whenever you are ready) - a lot of responsibilities

Cons

- salary is poor. All employees complain about the salaries, many look out for other jobs because of this, but the management still does not want to increase the salary - long working hours at times (this makes the salary even poorer!!!)

Pros

- Fantastic culture. Everyone is very friendly and supportive but this is by no means at any expense to quality of work - employees are very good at what they do. - Working hours are good. As long as you get the work done, there is no pressure to work extra hours for the sake of it. - Great opportunities to work with senior members of the firm and progress quickly

Cons

- Seasonal shift in working hours but it is unlikely to find any firm in this field where this isn't the case

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