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Please don't waste years of your life at this company. - Anonymous employee C1 Consulting Employee Review

1.0
Apr 4, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the analysts and consultants are nice and smart people and are working at the company because they really like doing analysis and want to learn about the industry.

Cons

1. Managers and directors range from juvenile to outright rude and aggressively offensive. Most of them are snarky and completely unprofessional. I even heard one refer to the junior workers as "the kids". 2. Don't complain or offer constructive criticism to anyone in the company (even if they ask you to via hired consultants) because it will be communicated straight to the owners of the company and your review will be impacted. There is a reason why most people in this company are afraid to speak up and don't - and for good reason. 3. Even if you have positive reviews year after year, prepare for the day that you will be sacked with no notice. 4. Pretend to like hockey, even if you don't. Otherwise you will get nowhere. Study hockey coaches and know that you will be treated like a child on a hockey team where the company directors are your coaches. 5. There are two types of managers in the company. The first kind are the ones you micromanage every single aspect of your work (mostly in San Francisco). The other kind are the ones who give you no direction at all but expect you to read their minds (Atlanta and New Jersey). If you want real mentorship or training - go to another company.

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Pros

Collegiate, high visibility, opportunities for career development

Cons

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5.0
May 12, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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