Rand Group Reviews

Overbearing management for the application development department, most projects handed to you are already a month behind schedule and they expect the programmers to pick up the slack. Also watch out for all the positive reviews on this site, if you look at the dates posted you see that a lot of them are done on the exact same day, which is really suspicious.

Office is too professional and business-like. Business dress code is too strict (developers have to wear ties except Fridays), but a positive is business casual from Memorial - Labor Day. Accounting/Finance backgrounds are move coveted. Yearly reviews, I am sure others would like more 1x1 time with managers (this depends on personality as well because not everyone is willing to schedule a meeting with a manager so the manager should initiate as a start). High turnover with senior personnel (this is somewhat expected in consulting of course) but the message is hardly ever translated down throughout the company. So need more transparency. Yearly staff retreat, this is no fun weekend retreat that you would think, it is a weekend where most of the office has to come together to review company policies and present presentations (please either change the name or actually make it a "fun" event for the hard-working staff members who deserve an actual retreat). The culture needs to be revisited because if the culture is not right, people will leave. Business may be great and the pipeline full of work, but if people do not feel as though they want to work there, they will look for alternatives.