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Avoid - Manager Strategy& Employee Review

1.0
Oct 23, 2017
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Pros

You get a fancy name on your CV and a bunch of friends to share your misery with. You can have decent exit opportunities unless you want to exit consulting.

Cons

Work is very repetitive and not family friendly - especially when doing due diligence. You have a steep learning for 6 months and then nothing, except heavy workload. Engagement managers are told to do everything (managing projects, finding projects, mentor team members). VIPs in the organisation have unfortunately created a hostile environment and never had a reality check with HR for their management style. It goes from negative comments on dress code to clear threats that you will not be staffed unless you agree with partners' direction/project content. Coming out of MBA where debates and respect among students were mandatory, I got shocked by a sheep mentality and a certain bully culture that was tolerated in the firm. HR could not provide any help, "it has always been this way, and current partners learned it from previous partners" was their only response. The limited recruitment pool in London (MBA & Oxbridge) is certainly not helping.

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Pros

A lot of opportunities to work on variety of projects across the industry

Cons

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3.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

You can get a good amount of beach time. If you have a lot going on in your life, that may be a good thing. If you are young and need to learn, don't let that happen. Being busy and grinding (within reason) is more worth it than things being too chill. Some projects that had travel had good culture.

Cons

Layoffs all the time for wrong reasons, way too remote with no ability to get young and hungry people the experience in person they need. Always stressing about utilization.

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