Protiviti Reviews

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High cost for healthcare, pay is OK/average

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Some client work may involve extended travel on a weekly basis

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- New-hire training is a bit much and too overwhelming to really extract anything valuable. You're never really trained on the essential skills and knowledge required to do your job. It's all dependent on on-the-job training and your peers to coach you.
- Inconsistency of overall experience based upon which solution (Internal Audit, Risk & Compliance, etc.) you work in. IAFA is all local clients whereas other solutions are very travel heavy. IAFA engagements can be hit or miss and are very SOX heavy. Other solutions are more consultative in nature.
- The Chicago office is so focused on growth growth growth and getting new work and clients. However, IAFA is understaffed, leading to limited resources for all this work. This constantly leads to overtime, and an expectation for people to complete work on nights and weekends when needed (this depends on your level). Engagements never end on time, which creates a lot of overlap and extra time spent tying up loose end while still trying to focus on the next engagement you are staffed on.
- Hiring focus - Too much emphasis on hiring college grads and not enough experienced hires. Hiring lots of college grads at times helps numbers in terms of staffing, but requires too much additional time spent coaching and developing.
- Inconsistency of work styles among upper management. You don't have a single "boss", but instead different groups of leadership on a project-by-project basis. When constantly being led by different people, it makes it hard to develop skills when you're being coached in different and sometimes conflicting ways.

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Well the company culture appears great, it was my experience that I was undervalued, overworked and my skills were underutilized. Unfortunately, I was sold on the opportunity for growth, a variety of work, lots of exposure to different projects in my interview. The company was also described as lean, transparent, innovative, having a collaborative team environment, and a flat organizational chart. Having come from a very transparent quick moving company, I can say Protiviti has a good amount of red tape and leadership likes to hold on to the old way of doing things “because that’s the way it’s always been done”. While movement is being made with the EA structure, my time here was spent supporting 11 people including a C-Suite level executive, local office Managing Director, and a handful of other MDs and Directors in a variety of solutions. My support varied based on individual, but for several individuals it included full spectrum support (calendaring, inbox management, tracking business development, time & expenses, researching clients, meal reservations / events, room reservations, document review and execution etc..). This did lead to exposure in a lot of new areas, unfortunately, it was very difficult to balance value added tasks into my regular data entry and administrative tasks. Management was receptive of my concerns and aware I needed growth opportunities, but these conversations lead to no impact on making changes. Something to be aware of-- Executive Assistants and Executive Support Coordinators are also the lowest ranking employees in the office, which means they are required to work in the office M-F while the rest of the operations employees and consultants have flexibility to work from home. This leads to many of the office related tasks fall on their shoulders. ie: watching the reception desk during lunches, and around the holidays, helping clean the kitchen, stocking snacks, ordering lunches and cleaning up afterwards, unloading dishwashers etc.. We are also often looked to in the office for answers with ordering supplies, packages / mail, Wi-Fi connection problems, printing needs, and office maintenance issues. On the topic of growth, there is none provided to EAs and very little provided to operations. During my interview process the personality characteristics of being entrepreneurial and taking initiative to transform the role beyond traditional EA duties was highlighted by the recruiters and several of the interviewers. In retrospect this was not a good fit because the company was not in a position to take on someone with an entrepreneurial attitude because no growth opportunities are offered, and the company is very slow to adapt and change. Additionally, their tech that is used internally is archaic for a tech consulting firm, they’ve yet to integrate the cloud for file storage / sharing, and do not leverage Microsoft O365 well. The culture at the firm seems to be on the right path. The people who work here are very nice. The individuals are kind and professional.

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- This isn't a "consulting" firm, it is simply an internal audit contract work firm, hence the Robert Half connection. The vast majority of client engagements consist of long term loan staff work where there is little to no interaction with Protiviti Managers or MDs.
- No say in the client projects you are placed on
- Poor training and development opportunities
- Very high cost of benefits
- Pitiful 401k

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I do not have any cons!

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I dont have any complaints

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Underwhelming work, underpaid compared to other audit firms

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likely will work over 40 hrs a week

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Could be helpful to work with other solutions more often