Brining in industry knowledge but not adapting the culture to be compatible with those who are not life long big 4 consultants.
Expectation of ridiculously long hours as the norm not the exception, don’t expect to be leaving the office earlier than 10pm on a regular basis.
Absolutely full of cliques, if you aren’t in them you won’t progress.
Toxic environment of people trying to push you under the bus to push themselves up the ladder.
Expected to account for 100% of your time in a complex non user friendly time sheet system, yet engagement leads will intimidate you into logging minimal hours in order to show a better margin, the remainder of time is logged “unassigned” which means you are given BD work to complete, so as well as working full time on an engagement (but not logging that time) you are now working on last minute pitches with minimal direction but high expectations.
The systems are a mess, no integration, high effort to do single things. Starting an engagement is literally 4 days of work filling in forms in different systems that are not linked and waiting for manual intervention from other parts of the world.
Your industry experience will mean nothing, you could come in having been a division head, and you’ll be made to feel like a junior.
