A good sourcing shop - Anonymous employee Kearney Employee Review

1.0
Jun 15, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The Comp is good up to the manager level, where it is then significantly below market-value.

Cons

Where to start? Expect them to layoff 10% of the workforce at mid-year and then blame you for it. If you want sourcing/procurement work this is the place. Partners aren't selling so layoffs and RIFs are the future of A.T. Kearney Terrible work-life balance, Partners care more about the font of the footnote on your page than that you are actually delivering value.

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Pros

If you’re fresh out of school and don’t have a specific skill and don’t know what to do, and you’re willing to be a yes man then yes it might be a good place to figure out your next step.

Cons

- Lack of pipeline for certain practices (and they will blame that on you saying your utilization is low but there’s nothing you can do at an associate level) - Full of people that feel good about themselves but they actually knows nothing about how actual industry work - No talent - Management will give you vague feedback that you can’t act on, For example, I got asked to “elevate the deck” but when I asked is it the messaging or is it the format etc they can’t give me anything specific - The expectation on work quality is inconsistent - Some manager level people can’t do excel which is shocking - You need to be a people pleaser in order to get promoted

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