Finalta Employee Reviews about "management"

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

A lot of responsibility is given to analysts, and there is plenty of room to develop. A great place to use analytical and client management skills. Working at a McKinsey subsidiary also has its benefits.

Cons

Working hours are generally volatile depending on the engagement.

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

client focus great young people

Cons

long hours poor management limited learning opportunities

Pros

Very organized management and competitive pay

Cons

The project work was tedious but that was expected

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

- 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

- 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

+ You can progress quick through the ranks and the reviews are based on merit + One of the best places to learn about banking + Senior management interacts with junior colleagues and they look at each other as peers

Cons

- Work is not as varied as in a more classic consulting role. You focus primarily on one industry from the beginning.

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