8020 Consulting Reviews

Shady business practices. For instance, 8020 will solicit your professional references for business! Also, they hire interns whose sole job is to comb through consultants' LinkedIn contacts in order to drum up business. Also, there's a lot of pressure to work overtime hours so the company can charge excessive rates to clients, which are only partially split with the consultants. Additionally, there is very little opportunity for professional growth as they tend to assign director-level talent to manager-level engagements.

The cons are mostly things that either come with the territory of being a consultant or are "necessary evils" in running a tight ship. When we are on a client, we may need to put in some longer hours to meet our objectives but that should not be an issue as long as you understand that coming in. This seems to be the case in general in finance and accounting. Some of us are faced with long commutes but that too is temporary and we are compensated if the commute exceeds certain distances. We have a fair amount of administrative duties to tend to but most of them are very reasonable and should be expected at a well organized company.