Guidehouse reviews

Continually cutting back on benefits. Reliably every other month there’s some small benefit that doesn’t matter that much that gets cuts, but it adds up over time. No surge utilization bonus anymore, phone stipend gets cut, floating holidays get gutted, 1 month before end of performance cycle they decide missing hours target means no bonus, corporate closes offices while mandating return to office A lot of talk about technology and “next-gen” consulting, but senior leadership is a bunch of out of touch old timey consultants that have no idea how to actually build new solutions Even before the government cluster with DOGE, company was not doing well and was only cutting costs to go public, not investing in long term top level growth. A lot of empty promises from leadership, including the CEO saying for years that Guidehouse is different and no layoffs will happen, only for 3 rounds of layoffs in the last 18 months. Bain PE ownership is just generally horrific

Largely dependent on project for career growth opportunities. Alarming recent leadership communication significantly impacting benefits. In the last 2 years, they increased utilization by 1% (>2 days of work), and changed the floating holiday policy to affect utilization (another 2 days of work), effectively shifting more than 4 days of vacation to 4.5 days of work. In addition to that, there are segments receiving notice of mandatory in-office days despite the offices being too small to accommodate large groups. If you have virtual meetings when in the office, you almost always have to be on mute or clients and team members will report extremely loud disruption from others in the office.