DLC reviews

DLC is not what it pretends to be. They treat employees as commodities, not as human beings with dignity, just as items being sold to their clients, some of which are more than dysfunctional. Has one ever heard of any organizations with plants in multiple states with multiple ERP systems, yet they talk about processes all the time. Some of the senior staff at one client do not even appear to fully know what they are doing. And their benefits just suck! They are a Temp agency throwing benefits out to recruit you but those benefits turn out to be nothing but a shell of what real benefits truly are, and they are very expensive. In other words, they are not upfront in their interview process when they make outlandish promises, to make us feel like we are working for a Consulting Firm, when in reality they are nothing more than a basic staffing agency for high level professionals.

This is essentially a staffing agency that they try to position as a consultancy. 1. Little to no exposure to DLC colleagues, which leads to lack of culture (even though they like to think they have great culture through providing an extra day off or sending you a quarterly care package / gift) 2. You have little input and decision making in the projects to which you are assigned. DLC's business model is such that they erode margin every day you are unassigned, so that's their priority vs getting quality projects aligned with a consultants growth goals 3. You can get assigned to a role that is below your pay grade and experience (i.e. lack of development). I had 8+ years of an experience and in one of my roles was essentially backfilling analyst and/or senior analyst job responsibilities 4. Opportunity to earn a bonus much less than how they portray it during the interview process. You either need to be an ancillary business development rep for them and generate leads to earn a bonus, or you need to bill more than 40 hours/week. What they don't tell you is some (if not most, but can't confirm) projects are fixed price and don't allow you to bill more than 40 hours. I was there for 1 year on three different clients and never had the chance to earn their "productivity bonus". 5. They don’t give you a 401(k) match until you’ve been with them for a year 6. I actually asked to be dually assigned to projects because one of mine was so slow - and that request was never met. You would think they would be all over an ambitious consultant trying to bill more hours. 7. DLC likes to tout their consultants as having really impressive backgrounds. I'd encourage you to review LinkedIn profiles of the current employees and make that judgement 8. I don't recall how they framed it during the interview process, but while on the "bench" / unassigned, you're required to do continuing education of some sort. This is the biggest joke out there. After you do your excel cert, you can get away without doing anything but it's the most ridiculous policy. If they want to create good culture - give some of that bench time back to the employees to enjoy their lives. It's not the consultant's problem DLC can't generate timely assignments.