Good company, terrible work - Business Operations Associate ZS Associates Employee Review

3.0
Jun 23, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Great company culture Senior management generally respects associates time and needs decent pay + benefits

Cons

the type of work you do is mostly "bi*ch work" as you mostly do work that the pharma clients are too incompetent to do themselves. ZS considers itself to be a consulting firm but in reality I would venture that at most 10-20% of the projects could actually be considered consulting projects; the rest are just grunt work

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Cons

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