Excellent firm to develop consulting skills / Extremely long working hrs with very poor mentorship - Associate Kearney Employee Review

3.0
Dec 11, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Good benefits; besides the pay and bonus. - You can learn a lot from multiple experts inside the firm. As a global company, there are people with international experience in multiple projects from a specific industry. - When available, good exposure to client interaction; there is a real and frequent interaction with the client's C-suite.

Cons

- Extremely poor mentorship. Even when you have frequent reviews with the project manager, your mentor won't get any visibility of your performance, and he/she is the one who reviews your case in the formal evaluation with the senior management team. - Very, very long working hours. It was usual to work over 80 hours per week. A normal working day started at 0700AM and ended with meetings around midnight. Nonetheless, on Fridays, you work until 0500PM. - Due to the current industry challenges, there were minimum opportunities for a new employee to be staffed on projects.

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5.0
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Pros

The role helps build strong research, communication, and analytical skills.

Cons

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1.0
Apr 16, 2026
Recommend
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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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