C1 Consulting reviews

In my time at C1 I didn't meet a single person who wanted to be there. Many held a PhD or Masters level degree in psychology, biology, or other fields. Most were there for a paycheck and that's it. The typical tenure was only 1 year with veterans lasting 2-3. Management treated employees like children, often hiring under-qualified people, training them (not really), and then firing them for small mistakes. The company wastes a lot of money this way, but it's not unexpected when you have doctors running the business end of an organization.

Where to begin.... Terrible retention. They lose people every month or two. If you've been there a year, you're a veteran. What person with a PhD from Stanford really wants to work in market research? No direction from management. The managing director is there once every three weeks. You're told to do something but at the last minute told it's wrong. Hours are long. Don't expect to work 40 hours a week. You'll be checking emails at 10pm. Very sad working environment. No one talks in the office despite its small size. You could go all day and not hear more than 10 sentences. Extremely tight deadlines which means any event that impacts the project, even if out of your control, will be blamed on you. Except no sympathy. Training? Not in your life. Sink or swim. Many have gone down because of this. Do yourself a favor, work at ZS or Campbell Alliance. Or Accenture. Or Mckinsey. Or anyplace with a brand name which will make it the least bit more tolerable to work there.