The company is rotten on every level of the spectrum and is on the path to obscurity.
Starting with the quality of employees, everyone is bitter and doing it for the security of the job. This is ironic considering that I fully believe the company will not exist in a decade or two. If you have any ounce of positive attitude, you will notice that it will disappear within a few months of joining. The workforce looks like a clique system. It is very hard to look past that once you start noticing it. The complete opposite of what you expect from a group of intelligent consultants. You can blame management for the absolute lack of leadership.
Speaking of management, I still fail to comprehend what the role of most is. It most certainly is not business development seeing as their plan of growth has been to "find more projects" for a few years. Strategy? Non-existent. Adaptability to the market? They'll laugh at you if you bring it up. And if they claim they're working on this behind the scenes, then you surely are doing a great job at keeping this a secret. This is ridiculous considering the size of the company. Seriously, do not join if you care about merit, company vision, and employee development. This should be clear from a simple linkedin search. Look at their current employee list and try to segment. You'll end up with 80% "managers" and "Project leaders". Complete imbalance in dynamics; management cannot make a single tough decision to either lay off bad performers or seek to attract talent. Their top priority is their own payroll, playing politics, and climbing up a sugar ladder of their own construction.
Speaking of the ladder and employee development, it seems to me that their conventional wisdom seems to be that development comes with tenure. If you get any training it's on using their broken IT system or on how to be a "manager". Do not expect any efforts on giving the workforce (the single most important asset of a consultancy) a competitive advantage over other places in the industry. What a joke considering that one of the industry's most established professional development entity (IFPtraining) is literally in the same complex. This is made even more ridiculous given the wealth of historical information and projects they are sitting on from their years in operation when I imagine there actually was better leadership. Once again, a testament to management's understanding of strategy (let alone their portfolio diversification which keeps getting worse by the year and it seems that management has no clue how to handle that).
I do not think any of the above will be taken seriously by management given the history of their reaction to suggestions and feedback from employees, but I hope to save someone's career through this. If you take your career seriously and want to have a meaningful job in a decade or two, DO NOT JOIN.
