Huron Consulting Group reviews

I was told to "be professional" from an HR representative when I was laid off at Huron. It felt dismissive, patronizing and as if I should suppress my natural emotional response of shock. A managing director read a script to me and blamed AI when in reality, it was about utilization. The individual who read the script would not receive their bonus unless we met our utilization goals. I wasn't in charge of sales, nor in business development. The person who read the script to me was in charge of that. It would have been so nice to have heard "I know this is difficult news to hear, or this decision was not made lightly. We deeply value the contributions you've made." Telling folks to "be respectful" when they are getting laid off lacks empathy, is completely insensitive, and implies judgement. It is the worst timing for someone who is trying to process the shock or disappointment. We're thinking about our mortgages, our kids, our next steps. I can see you saying "be respectful" if someone starts yelling or is inappropriate, but if they say NOTHING and sit there quietly and then you say "be respectful", it's like being kicked when you're down or slapped in the face. Isn't it bad enough that you go online the next day and talk about how great your earnings are for the quarter and then rehire for those roles shortly after the layoffs? Let me guess. It's hard on you too, or you had a bad day because you had to do layoffs. You get to keep your job and you have the audacity to say "be professional" to someone who just lost their job, their livelihood. Way to go.

Junior people (below senior director) are often pretty bad in terms of business acumen, analytical skills, raw intelligence, problem solving, work standards, and leadership ability; leadership ability in junior leaders is non-existent; not real consulting, it's mostly implementations and grunt work; strategy work is non-existent, M&A, Pricing, Go-to-Market work is non-existent; mostly same things over and over; staffing is completely out of your hands; a resource management teams assigns available bodies to projects; you can't really turn down projects; project are mostly in small, distant cities; staying in average or below average hotels; about $50/day per diem for 3 meals; very very tight on expenses; GROSSLY underpaid compared to industry standards or other firms; bonuses are a joke; 4 rounds of layoffs in my 5 years; their model is training you vertically to be a SME in your area; zero exposure to other things or leadership training or business exposure; the work is grimmy; it's definitely not cutting edge or exciting; they've made a nice little niche doing grunt work implementations; junior leaders are really really good at shifting blame to keep themselves moving up; junior leaders treat direct reports like crap; the mediocrity of the talent shows in every facet of the business; complete lack of innovation will always prevent Huron from being a top tier firm or developing new lines of business; diversity is emphasized just barely to keep the pressure off, nothing that there is a real commitment towards; no office culture; no culture at all