CMSPI Reviews

3.9

71% would recommend to a friend

(69 total reviews)

Brendan Doyle

80% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

CMSPI has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 69 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CMSPI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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69 reviews
1.0
16 Feb 2023
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Pros

* Present to CFOs at young age (even if you do not believe what you are saying)

Cons

- Management/Decision making dominated by selfish, commission-driven legacy employees - Company under stress of PE investment and not hitting targets, leading to recent firings of many competent employees - If you do not drink the company "Kool-Aid," you are ostracized. The culture is largely based on a "tell me what I want to hear" not a "tell me what I need to hear approach. - There is no proper way to fail leading to employees that lie, blame others, or take credit for co-workers work. - Lofty client expectations due to over-promising and inaccurate assumptions CMSPI is good at what they do, which is auditing. This is not a consultancy, no matter how much they want to pretend to be or demand that their employees find a way to make it one. I would recommend reaching out to former CMSPI employees (a large group known as "The Leavers") for their opinion on working there before accepting employment.

1.0
11 Mar 2023

Diminishing Company Culture

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Pros

The president of this company is extremely empathetic and personable. She is one of the best leaders I have worked with. Furthermore, the CEO is actively involved in the company and tries to connect with younger employees. Most CEO’s of small firms are glorified hype-men, this is not the case here. Finally, this firm has a lot of potential as there are many large enterprise clients you get to present in front of early on in your career.

Cons

Please read this if you are considering employment at CMSPI. Furthermore, please sort reviews by recent because this business has drastically changed. First things first, this firm recently received private equity investment, which massively impacted the culture and work life balance. Senior leadership is quite inexperienced to navigate difficult situations professionally, which results in a very toxic, sink or swim atmosphere. I’ll start with the head of consulting or project delivery - this is a person you cannot trust unfortunately. The type of person to say what you want to hear to make you happy in the moment, and then immediately does the opposite thing to satisfy their personal agenda. Next comes data - if you are an individual looking to build your data science skills, this is not the organization for you. CMSPI’s data infrastructure is set up for failure. You constantly are given incorrect data, forced to present back to the client in a hasty manner, and then blamed and gaslit for not getting it right. You are simply set up for failure, which is so sad to experience as a young professional. What is it like working here? Well you are likely interviewing for an analyst or consultant role. Unfortunately, if you do not look like the consulting team physically, you do not get to be a part of the club. As an analyst, you are doing manual excel labour that should be outsourced. Furthermore, the consultants are not consultants - they are glorified account managers. In traditional consulting, a consultant is an expert that actually knows how to do the work while interfacing with the clients to find solutions to their problems. Here they just hound analysts for income movements and can rarely open an analysis file and understand what is going on. Next, I have personally seen so many people brutally fired and quit for various reasons. A normal organization wishes people well, at CMSPI the employees are told the leavers “could not handle the pressure.” At some point, majority rules and you are left to question whether the problem was the individual leaver or the organizational culture. Overall, this firm has a lot of work to do on the toxic work atmosphere. Younger employees that have any shred of talent or intelligence are churned out. Most people that stick it out are ones who blindly follow senior leaders without questioning anything. Be careful with salary expectations as only people there from day 1 get to enjoy the massive commissions while newer, lower level employees grind day in and day out to make the magic happen.

1.0
9 July 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Management (begrudgingly) enabled hybrid working, post-covid. Most probably due to recruitment market conditions than a desire to improve work life balance.

Cons

This is without doubt the worst company I have ever worked for. Everything you see from the outside is all for show. It’s only when you leave cmspi do you truly understand just how dysfunctional the management is. It’s a constant race to the next dollar and no time is spent looking at better processes or how to manage without having a bullying/blame culture. There are redundancies every 3-6 months (…HUGE red flag!) and it’s always the analyst and marketing people that are first to go. This is why the company is constantly hiring for roles in these teams. Cmspi is no place for a university graduate. Retention from the graduate schemes is tiny. In my year and the previous year, there are only 2 or 3 still there from an intake of nearly 20. Grads are treated terribly and only serve to make the consultants look good. This is where some of the worst bullying takes place.

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