Kaufman Hall Reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(142 total reviews)

Wes Champion

79% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

Kaufman Hall has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 142 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kaufman Hall 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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142 reviews
2.0
31 Dec 2017

Proceed with Great Caution

Anonymous employee
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Pros

• The firm provides a wide range of solutions/services to their healthcare provider client base, which are unmatched by most competitors • You will learn a lot about healthcare provider finance and strategy if you are willing to put in the hours

Cons

• Little to no transparency about end of the year compensation at the junior levels (Associate, Sr. Associate and AVP) • Senior partners expect staff members to do all the work, often times with zero oversight, but then take all the reward (see $) • Old boys club culture – if you weren’t hired prior to 2013-2014 when the firm started growing, then good luck ever moving up or impressing senior management/partners • A handful of very rude, inconsiderate and downright miserable people frequently cause a toxic work environment • Toxic culture where employees are scared to ask questions for the fear of being called out / thrown under the boss…this does not yield an environment where people can learn, but rather fosters fear and resentment • Multiple engagement model can be very difficult to manage, with competing deadlines from several managers who do not communicate then end up competing for your time… the result is poor quality of work product and very long hours • Revolving door – the firm has not been able to retain any talent at the junior level due to all the reasons (and many more) listed above

1.0
6 July 2016

Associate

Recommend
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Pros

Variety of work, and (deteriorating) brand in healthcare.

Cons

Extremely political (look at the quality of MDs recently promoted). Must align yourself to the right people, and can't upset the wrong people. In Skokie with limited remote work flexibility. Exodus of the talented junior/mid level talent. Senior managers don't care. Mid-level employees are unwilling to provide candid feedback.

1.0
3 Jan 2015

Not a great place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Kaufman Hall has been growing fairly rapidly over the last few years as have most healthcare consulting firms. They don't do time based billing so there are no time sheets to fill out. Compensation is on the low side of competitive and fairly heavily bonus dependent. Of course, with the lack of time sheets - there is no way to know what your bonus was based on.

Cons

Work life balance is practically non-existent. You will be expected to work at least 60 hours per week - sometimes more. There is a real lack of vision for the company. They can't decide whether they are financial advisors, consultants or an IT company. There is a large core of Kaufman Hall employees who have been here for 20 plus years and they seem to get preferential treatment. Anyone who has been there less than five years gets treated as an outsider. Compensation is on the low side of competitive - there are many other consulting firms that pay much more. Also, there doesn't seem to be much consistency in pay be level of employee. It seems to depend on what you were able to negotiate coming in. Given the grinding work schedule, relatively low pay and lack of any other sort of perks it is pretty hard to recommend this as a place to work.

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