- I'm afraid the company is transforming itself into a "body shopping" company, selling consultants with no care about their growth and career path
- No rotation planned for people in many projects, you'll be left with the Client. If you are alone (sometimes your line manager is a competitor) you have no visibility and it gets very frustrating
- The company doesn't care, at all, about the quality of delivery that you as a Consultant provide to its Clients. There is no oversight and there is no difference from their perspective from someone working in a A type project and someone working for another project. This means at calibration you can sell your project work as you wish, and playing the "internal work" game you can get promoted easily, but remember if you are stuck in a difficult project the Company doesn't know. The "delivery" element of your work (the thing that takes 99% of your time every day) is only 1 element they evaluate you against, but there are other 5 elements (growth, talent etc.) much more weighted
- If you want to be promoted, there's only one thing to do: you have to do A LOT of internal work (blogging, helping VPs with bids, joining or arranging workshops etc.) all nice things but too much weighted for a Consulting company. A lot of people arrange recurring calls with doubtful meaning just to show they are pro-active and thick the box. Many times nothing happens as a result of these calls
- Some VPs are of very doubtful skillsets for the position they cover. A few of them are sales people with no technical idea of the projects they are selling consultants for
- The idea of the company is to build your skillset within the same Client to sell you better in the future. There is no idea of proper rotation, especially within FS. This means it's very difficult to change Client. This goes against why someone chooses a Consulting company but it's in line with the "Body shopping" mentality
- Some Counsellors are not available and don't respond to your queries, never, meaning it's very difficult to get promoted unless you escalate
- Of the four divisions (BMT, OPEX etc.) a lot of times you'll find yourself to work in a complete different thing. If you work with someone from another capability, the result is that even if you've worked together for the same project, same Client, similar role, you might get your salary raised and the other person might not, just because of budget constraints in the other division
