Korn Ferry reviews

Korn Ferry needs a major adjustment to their moral compass. They lie to their employees and clients, and never reward their top performers with pay raises or promotions. They never increased salaries for cost of living adjustments during this absurd housing market. Their bonus structure is extremely vague and you're told it's "discretionary" which means they just see how much is leftover after their C-suite execs are paid as much as they want instead of paying you out for your exceptional efforts and what you truly earned. They lay off their top performers and best employees after lying to them about their "exciting new contract" they have waiting for them after their current contract ends. Their HR team is cold and heartless when delivering layoff messaging, which is sickening when you're absolutely blind-sighted as a top performer. They are over-involved with their RPO teams and add-on unnecessary meetings and additional stress for their team who has 60 hours of client work on their plate already. They don't understand how to manage RPO accounts and what their role actually is vs. the client.

Frequent layoffs, even though the company is financially stable. But they don’t lay off any of the toxic team leads/managers. They say they are “one Korn Ferry” but I didn’t find this to be true. They don’t value good employees who are productive. I was laid off a team where I was a senior member and a high producer. There was a person on our team who literally complained all the time and another who had just been on the account for a few months. I was on the account for a year, promoted a positive team environment but I was the one let go, most likely because I was paid too much. I also had a couple of toxic team leads that did nothing to get me the career development I desired.