Mid-Low Tier Staff Augmentation Company
Pros
- Leadership at the Director and Partner level is generally legacy PwC and consists of high quality, competent professionals - Good place for less accomplished or credentialed professionals to get a huge pay raise and title increase by coming to Guidehouse
Cons
Leadership - Scott McIntyre and the C suite seems completely out of touch with the company. Occasionally, Scott will hold all hands but the meetings seem like nothing more than Scott listening to himself speak in non-tangible terms and says nothing of substance in an hour. The IT infrastructure has long been an issue long before Guidehouse but has been exponentially worse under Chas' leadership. Ownership - The ownership of Veritas Capital has been increasingly visible with slashes to the retirement match (removal of wealth builder), moving to unlimited PTO for Managers and above, lower pay raises and bonuses, and further reductions in benefits. This will likely continue in perpetuity. Career Advancement - In stark contrast to PwC, Guidehouse is run like a staff augmentation company. Generally speaking, if you are staffed to an engagement, that is where you will stay as long as the contract is active. If you have other career ambition, moving to a different project may be possible but will come with resentment from the Director whose project you are leaving. As of 1/1/2020, there is an additional career level which has been input making advancement from Manager (now Managing Consultant) to Director more difficult as you need to be promoted to "Associate Director" first. Back Office Investment - Since the carve out of PwC's public sector there has been little investment in back office operations such as recruiting, finance, etc. which has made simple tasks like invoicing or filling open positions difficult. Many of the legacy start performers were burned out and departed the company, leaving a smaller less experienced staff to complete these functions.
