BearingPoint reviews

3.7

79% would recommend to a friend

(1,150 total reviews)
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Matthias Loebich

80% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

BearingPoint has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,150 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BearingPoint employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Beratung industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Aug 30, 2015
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Surely you must be kidding

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Correction: I last worked there in 2005 (choice not available). Bearningpoint (“spinoff” of KPMG, declared bankruptcy in 2009?) had an active subculture of corruption and intimidation of employees (called “consultants” on their company-issued biz cards). One ploy was to coerce “key people” to work on other business, even if they were 100% dedicated for the contract they were hired to work on. “Key people” are always identified in the response to RFPs to win gov business, but BP hiring managers did not disclose who the key people were to new hires. In 2004, BP was orienting several hundred employees, quarterly or so, in large groups at the Tyson Ritz-Carlton. Early in 2004, there was a big article in the WashPost about some irregularity going on there. The article included mention of Managing Directors, bot males and females, yelling at each other at internal meetings. Some of BP’s people and contracts went to Price Waterhouse Coopers after the company declared bankruptcy. Could this scenario be happening at your company? Find out by asking the right questions on your interview, like who the key people are. Of course you will NOT be hired if you ask the see the project documents that created the contract. Some gov contracting companies are only looking to hire “yes” people, as in “ask no questions, just do what you sup tell you do”. Hireling beware.

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BearingPoint Response
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You refer to a different company, namely BearingPoint Inc. Our company, BearingPoint headquartered in Europe, has been a separate legal entity and conducted a management buyout in 2009. Its development since then is very positive, see our Annual Report: http://www.bearingpoint.com/en/about-us/annual-report/
2.0
Aug 14, 2014

Fatal spin off from KPMG

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Because of KPMG's solid reputation, BearingPoint didn't have to prove itself as a viable vendor to buyers of Management Consulting services and Systems Integration services. Entrepreneurial culture allowed for, and supported, development of new service offerings.

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BearingPoint executives failed to understand that, by going public, the financial performance expectations/demands of Wall Street would be significantly different from the financial performance expectations of Partners. Horrible internal systems prevented reliable monitoring of financial performance at all levels - from the individual project level to the overall firm level.

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BearingPoint Response
10y
You refer to a different company, namely BearingPoint Inc. Our company, BearingPoint headquartered in Europe, has been a separate legal entity and conducted a management buyout in 2009. Its development since then is very positive, see our Annual Report: http://www.bearingpoint.com/en/about-us/annual-report/
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