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Surprisingly corporate for a boutique firm - Anonymous employee C1 Consulting Employee Review

2.0
Mar 21, 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The project work is fairly interesting and will involve you in all aspects of project management- from vendor communications to conducting interviews all the way through to the final PPT. The compensation isn't bad, and being 'run through a meat grinder' will certainly prepare any entry person better for a parallel or upward transition later in their career.

Cons

Terrible internal communication; the projects and retaining clients take much higher priority over employee growth and development; projects tend to focus more on primary market research and secondary data analysis with little strategy work; poor communication both top-down and bottom-up; a LOT of favoritism and very little actual decisive action from upper management. One thing no one talks about also is the culture; there's definitely a culture of silence here where you're encouraged to voice ideas if it agrees with the social leaders. Not a great environment for any sort of innovation to take place.

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5.0
Jun 14, 2017
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Pros

Collegiate, high visibility, opportunities for career development

Cons

Long hours, though work from home fridays

5.0
May 12, 2015
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Pros

Take the negative reviews with a grain of salt--they are mostly a consequence of company size. Up until 6-12 months ago we were a "small" firm and it's uncomfortable to write a review as a happy current (or former) employee when everyone (in your branch) will know you wrote it. This leaves the most likely people to write reviews to be bitter, former employees. Given that we are now a mid-sized firm I would encourage employees (former and current) to give an honest review of the company. Pros: 1) Very intelligent coworkers 2) Competitive salary and benefits 3) Great work-life balance (for consulting). Work from home Fridays, multiple holidays, managers are very lenient with employees needing to come late/leave early/leave for an hour or two for an appointment. It mostly depends on how reliable you are in terms of getting work done on time and not being someone overtly trying to take advantage of C1's leniency 4) No traveling Monday-Thursday nonsense (i.e. our firm does more than simply sell employees to a business for 6 months at a time) 5) Opportunity to work directly with high-level people (i.e. Directors, Partners--most of whom are open to suggestions on project approaches, design, etc.). Really, this shouldn't be understated: you can quickly get visibility with the owners of the firm. 6) The firm makes a real effort to get you on project types you request to work on

Cons

1) Partners have very different styles of managing projects--mostly due to their areas of expertise and personality types 2) Recent split in NJ/NY office seems likely to cause more complications than it fixes

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