Steep learning curve, great people - Anonymous employee Obsidian X Employee Review

Obsidian has a really steep learning curve, so once you start to get the hang of things, you gain an incredible amount of experience in a very short period of time. There are excellent colleagues who truly care about your development professionally and personally. The culture around advancing and developing really helps to foster growth in the best way.

Projects are too long sometimes which prevents you from taking on other interesting projects.

Obsidian was a great place to work in many ways. The benefits are second to none and the people you work with are some of the nicest people I have ever met. There are smart people everywhere and most are very humble about it. It was rewarding to be in a culture and a company that was growing so rapidly. People worked hard and the senior leadership did care about certain aspects of everyday life in a way that was productive and helpful. As a consultant, the work was hard and demanding just like consultants. Obsidian is like a family and they take care of you. Obsidian does care about affinity groups and does a great job of trying to be inclusive of people with different background.

Obdisian management and leadership made it clear that consultants come first and everyone else is second. While this makes sense in some regard (that is the business), it was often disheartening to not feel as valued .Living as a non-consultant at Obsidian was often like a second-class citizen. Cons for recruiting: -Unlike the consultant world, Business Services and recruiting, in particular, does not have an up or out model. Employees who are lazy and not meeting standards are not held accountable. It seemed like Obsidian rather keep an inefficient, lazy employee who has been working at Obsidian for 3-4 years at a substandard quality, rather than hire someone new.