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
Jan 7, 2018

Finance Manager

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good group of colleagues and network developed through this experience

Cons

Management led through intimidation and was only focused on corporate politics, not on the organization's success.

2.0
Dec 16, 2017
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Pros

Talented people with a large range of backgrounds and ages A wide range of industries and products to be involved with Fairly good benefit packages Nice office

Cons

Left on the bench for the vast majority of the time (Up to a period of 4-5 months!) as the firm seemed to be unable to gain more work from clients. Understand that this might have been changed since with “pro-bono” placements on projects, but this was an unacceptable situation which was given little attention by management. I felt completely undermined by this problem - there was no project rotation to compensate for excessive bench time which was reflected in performance. A wasted year. Very glad to have moved on to more interesting and difficult work with a better-managed employer. Project work was also rather dry. More interesting consulting projects to be found elsewhere.

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BearingPoint Response
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We’re sorry to hear that your experience of working with us wasn’t as you expected. BearingPoint is committed to providing its consultants with the best experience it can, and we endeavour to ensure each project is staffed with consultants with the right skills and experience to not only ensure a successful project, but also to ensure the level of experience for our consultants is at its highest – meeting their personal and professional development needs. It is unfortunate that you feel you did not experience the best consulting has to offer at BearingPoint, however, the nature of the industry often means there are times where staff are required to be on the bench between projects. During these periods BearingPoint ensures all consultants have the opportunity to support various business development and pro-bono activities, as well as take advantage of the wide array of learning and development opportunities that are on offer. It is important for us to maintain a good working environment for all of our employees and we strongly encourage staff to raise any issues with their Manager or HR team so they can be resolved as soon they emerge. It’s critical that we continue to be the best employer we can so your comments and feedback are gratefully received.
1.0
Jan 28, 2016

Out of touch

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Pros

Nice office location in the city (pity you're never there), acceptable brand in France and Germany, good laptops and iPhones.

Cons

BearingPoint is completely out of touch with the rest of the industry. The work-life balance is terrible - with managers expecting you to spend years on end stuck in the north of England working on dull projects. Little choice in projects and direction of travel within the firm - more of a get what you're given culture. Training and development opportunities are very few. Worst is the salary which is significantly below market average. They try and pay everyone within a grade equally which means high performers are paid the same as under achievers. The band averages are also very poor - at least £10k below the rest of the market.

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BearingPoint Response
10y
We’re sorry to hear that your experience of working with us hasn’t been to the high standard it’s so important to us to maintain. We strongly encourage staff to raise any issues with their manager or HR so they can be resolved as soon they emerge. It’s critical that we continue to be the best employer we can so your comments and feedback are gratefully received. To remain competitive in the market we review compensation benchmarks and we conduct salary reviews on an annual basis, giving every employee opportunities for promotions, salary increases andbonuses. There is a salary band for each level and staff progress through the bands until they reach the next level. BearingPoint offers a wide array of learning opportunities at each level to support career and personal development so our people can fulfill their potential. Our L&D curriculum provides an extensive range of training courses starting with ‘BearingPoint School’ for new joiners. We deliver best-in-class instructor-led training with leading UK training companies as well as our unique partnership with Yale School of Management which provides a world-class innovative leadership experience, exclusively for BearingPoint staff. There are many other personal development courses as well as solution/technical and online courses on the curriculum. While the nature of consulting requires working on client site, where possible we try to accommodate location preferences. However, there are occasions where it is not possible for us to do this due to client requirements to be on site. We do take work-life balance concerns seriously and encourage staff to discuss any problems with their manager in order for us to work together to resolve this. We are continuously focused on enhancing the employee experience and we appreciate your feedback as we want to always ensure we meet our employees’ highest expectations.
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