Good consulting company overall, some challenges - Manager Pariveda Employee Review

4.0
Jan 17, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Straightforward career model, mostly quality people, minimal travel, focus on the individual. Also, no offshore or staff-aug projects for the most part. Pretty flexible benefits package, although they have been trimmed back in the last few years and are not competitive with product companies competing for the same talent.

Cons

Climbing the ladder, especially if you aren't in Dallas, can be a very obtuse and disconnected-feeling process for manager and above. Politics do exist. Leaders in satellite offices are afraid to disagree with corporate strategy, to the detriment of individual markets. Conservative culture for a consulting company. No bonuses, ever, regardless of performance - can be a decent place to coast. Much if not most of upper management is non-technical. Fair bit of turn-over for manager and above.

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Pariveda Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback! Feedback is essential for learning individually and collectively. Pariveda is intentionally designed from to focus on growing individuals (employees, clients and partners) to their highest potential. Our expectations framework is a transparent set of expectations by level, lending clarity to everyone's promotion path and guiding our mentors and managers in their coaching. It sounds like some things you experienced run counter to our culture. We take your feedback seriously. We are implementing steps to measure and improve the experiences of our people as they grow their careers here. We review our benefit offerings frequently and scan the market for new offerings that might provide even greater safety for our people and their families. For example, in 2016 we increased our Paternity Leave to equal Maternity Leave (so now we simply have Paternal Leave) because we want parents to enjoy the specialness of this wonderful life event. We also added a match to FSA Transit dollars. Thank you again. We listen and learn from your feedback!

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