BearingPoint reviews

It's hard to receive big raises even though you performed at a very high level. Reviews are only completed once a year and raises have been minimal the past couple of years. Bonues are hard to come by unless you have senior management in corner. As for projects, it's tough to be on a project that you really want to be on. Currently, bench time is considered taboo and many employees have to find a project to jump on wether it would help their career or not. Needless to say, there are many people staffed on projects that would not benefit one's career.

The company, like many consulting firms of it's size, tends to run itself like a human capital sweatshop. Although individual project teams can at times be close knit the company as a whole tends to have more of an industrial feel with people really being considered more work unit producers rather than true people and team members. This is really a function of a high turnover rate and the fact that the company is public so is bottom line driven and hasn't figured out how to balance being tied to Quarterly results and still embracing high performing team members with more of a "family" feel. Very few people there are "proud" to work at BearingPoint. There is also a tendency for the company to become stove-piped in that once you end up working for a particular MD (or within a given product line) it can become next to impossible to escape.