Nous Group Reviews

Thank you for your considered review. I also believe Nous has an incredible future ahead! As communicated at our recent Nous Days, in the next few months we will create and publish a formal EDI strategy, to extend beyond gender, sexual orientation and disability to cultural diversity. We are alert to increasing our cultural diversity, particularly at senior levels, but appreciate we have further to go.

Thank you for your review. It's great that you have had the joy of working with great colleagues, benefited from stretch opportunities and flexibility. I imagine you will have developed quickly as a result, as well as enjoyed your experience. Nous runs a comprehensive induction program for all Noubies. In prior years this ran for 2 days for corporate employees and a week for consulting employees. This year we introduced an immersive induction program for graduates which ran for over 2 weeks and provided a solid grounding in core consulting skills. Our turnover is sitting at 10% year to date, lower than we expect and likely impacted by COVID. It's true you will work long hours, given the complexity of the work and our client driven culture. You will also enjoy flexibility, stretch, learning, intellectual stimulation and compassion.

Thank you for taking the time to post a review. I am glad you met some great people who you will continue to include as part of your network. Good colleagues make a big difference. We do find it challenging to create a pathway for E&PAs, which we are honest about. We look for opportunities for our E&PAs to take on projects or responsibilities including organizing our bi-annual Nous Days or supporting a sector or practice lead. In October 2019 we formed the E&PA Network, led by one of our experienced E&PAs, to support the development of our E&PAs. The network lead also considers workload across the cohort. We recognise that our E&PAs do work hard, as do all Nousers. Working at pace and intensity is one of our cultural hallmarks - we bring a deep personal connection to the work we do, we work on complex problems and we think it helps us stay ahead of the game in a constantly changing environment. I appreciate this environment is not right for everyone.

Thank you for your review and for acknowledging our culture and the positive influence we deliver through our projects. I hope we don't have sub-conscious bias towards more extroverted employees but your feedback is a good reminder to always be alert to unconscious bias. Our performance review process involves many people, in part to address the issue of potential bias. Calibration sessions bring together the views of office leads, resourcing, HR business partners, and the MD and CFO, to review and reflect on the feedback provided by colleagues. Many of our best performers are not extroverts - they are smart people who quietly deliver excellent work for our clients.