GEI Consultants reviews

Thank you for your detailed review of GEI. You’ve noted a number of key things about our culture, including our focus on safety. As a newer employee to GEI, its important to us that you experience our dedication to a safe work environment. In addition, we want you to work in an environment that you enjoy, are engaged in working on interesting projects and grow your consulting skills by having access to clients and increasingly complex and interesting work. We have an established annual process to review employee compensation. On an annual basis, we review employee, regional and company performance to determine merit increases, promotions, performance bonuses and, for eligible employees, ownership opportunities. We spend several weeks on this process because its very important to get right. Once compensation changes, bonuses and ownership opportunities are fully vetted and approved, we process and implement them by the next bi-weekly pay cycle. You mentioned our employee ownership, a program we’re very proud of at GEI. Compared to industry benchmarks, we offer ownership opportunities much earlier than many other firms. Our ownership opportunities start at mid-career, after performance and dedication to our clients and firm are clearly established. With that said, our youngest owner is 31 years old and we have 17 owners who are in the millennial generation, making up 6.8% of ownership. Overall, out of our 850 employees and 412 eligible employees, 250 are owners, making GEI nearly 30% employee owned. Thank you for choosing GEI to grow your career. We are thrilled you’re part of our team and look forward to a successful, long-term partnership with you in support of our clients.

Thank you for your feedback. GEI has a robust travel and expense guideline document that provides details about our expense and reimbursement practices. We reimburse employees weekly upon receipt of the appropriate and accurate expense form and supporting documentation. For any employees where this presents an issue, we would encourage them to speak to their direct supervisor about their concerns and to discuss options. As to being billable, as a consulting firm dedicated to our clients, we have a focus on ensuring that the work our clients have entrusted to us is completed timely and with excellence. We also have a focus on maintaining a culture where our employees thrive, are engaged and feel rewarded for their efforts. If any employee has suggestions or feedback, we encourage them to use any number of channels available including speaking with their direct supervisor, a member of senior or executive leadership, the People & Safety team or through more formal means such as the GEI Pulse employee engagement survey or any other number of surveys conducted throughout the year.