Great company to work for - Senior Consultant Bates Group Employee Review

Inclusive environment Challenging work with various opportunities Management seeks opinions from staff Good transparency Little drama Flexible work schedule (including work at home opportunity)

Too much focus on diversity training/education when it’s not a company issue. Probably just caught up with the environment that is going on.

Good location next to fancy restaurants.

Bates Group presents itself as a firm with a deep bench of experts across various fields, but the reality is quite different. Many of the professionals listed on their website don’t actually do active work for the company, and their expertise is more for show than substance. Additionally, they have a pattern of hiring contractors to provide specialized knowledge, only to phase them out once the internal team has been trained on their insights. Instead of fostering long-term collaboration, they treat contractors as temporary knowledge sources and let them go as soon as they've extracted what they need. This creates an unstable and frustrating work environment for contractors who expect fair treatment. If you're considering a contract role here, be prepared for a short stint with little long-term security.