Don't Join Digital - Consultant GHD Employee Review

2.0
Feb 14, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Decent benefits, 401k match, accrued PTO, and 2 weeks off end of year. Lot of focus past few years on improving employee experience by introducing new benefits such as mentorship, youth leadership programs, and paid parental leave for all parents. The Core business is decent and where you want to be

Cons

Digital is a rapidly imploding organization and dying business. Go somewhere else and save your career. Technical roles are highly pigeonholed and have little to no upward mobility. Expect to come into a technical role, stay there, and only get more of the same projects on your resume. Leadership roles are forced to chase employees down for meaningless internal metrics rather than focusing on growing the business. The oldest businesses in the group have struggled to innovate and grow while competitors have gone miles ahead. Despite many market examples, these groups have completely failed to adapt and invest. This does not seem to be changing anytime soon. Digital staff are billed at ridiculous premiums, making you less attractive to your Core counterparts who own client relationships. Good luck trying to stay competitive and finding projects to bill to. Expect annual salary raises of 2-3% while your billing rate (and cost of living) goes up by more than that. The group releases marketing content trying to look like a top rated digital consultancy but it is far from the image it portrays itself as.

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5.0
May 28, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Evolving with the times to best serve client needs. Investing in employee learning. Attracting high caliber talent.

Cons

Change can feel disruptive for some, but GHD is on a disciplined journey.

4.0
Jun 19, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great starting point as an internship, gives you good experience to the professional and consulting world, pay for an engineering intern is satisfactory. Values of the company and support from coworkers is appreciated. Seems to be a psychologically safe place to work and make mistakes. No noticeable workplace toxicity or politics. Everyone seems to be authentic and chill. Not noticing anyone keeping their heads down and received reports of satisfaction with work environment from coworkers. Exposure to a variety of projects, including field work experiences. Seems to be a solid resume builder.

Cons

Need to be pretty proactive for work. For me who enjoys having work to do, its kind of stressful. You have to take initiative in making your own plan. For someone who thrives in structure and needs a bit of help in planning, this is a struggle. Limited flexibility in doing a hybrid role (even though job description stated it was when I applied) For someone who is 42 mi from the office and with heavy traffic takes 1h 15 min to reach the office, its a struggle. But I understood that my commute time is longer than average when I took the position.

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