Navanti Group reviews

Morale is dangerously low throughout the workforce; many analysts who were once excited to come to work now feel resentful or simply resigned, given the company's apparent inability to address the systemic problems described below and in previous reviews. I know from multiple conversations with my former colleagues at Navanti that claims about unequal pay for women are absolutely true. But this is just one important symptom of a wider problem; I could cite many instances of both implicit and explicit sexism at Navanti. As a man, sexist comments by a few managers made me feel uncomfortable on multiple occasions -- so I can't imagine how much more worse this was for my female colleagues. Multiple managers have left the company in the past few months and have not been replaced. In part as a result of this, but also due to general disarray, those remaining managers with any interest in getting the company on a better path are clearly overworked. As a result, communication is frequently horrendous. Analysts are regularly told different or even directly contradictory things by different managers. The overwhelming mood in most meetings is one of disorganization and haphazardness. Managers don't have the time to give employees anywhere near enough guidance and support. Questions go unanswered. Problems go unresolved. I've lost count of how many analysts have proactively left Navanti over the course of the year, in most cases without being replaced. A majority of current analysts are actively looking for work or twiddling their thumbs while a pending offer is finalized. The quality of Navanti's work has declined noticeably due to understaffing, terrible communication, and abysmal morale. This is not to say that every product is bad -- some remain impressive as a result of analyst talent and effort -- but the average quality is significantly brought down by some truly poor work. I'm embarrassed by some of the reports that have recently gone out the door. Management is either unaware of this, doesn't care, or assumes the problem can somehow be resolved when the company is on firmer financial footing. It can't. These are systemic problems with cumulative impacts as they remain unaddressed. On multiple occasions, Navanti overpromised and under-budgeted in order to get a foot in the door with new clients. This is perhaps understandable, but after analysts and some good middle managers work extremely hard to make good on these promises, the company seems unable to parlay that success into more sustainable work conditions or in some cases into any future work at all. In their eagerness to please clients, management pushes analysts to the breaking point by urging them to overdeliver far beyond the scope of a given project, or by unexpectedly demanding sample work be created for potential clients -- again, all perhaps defensible if it yielded results, but so often it doesn't.

When times are bad, Navanti is bad. Business development focuses on short term, rather than long-term, sustainable growth. A lack of focus on maintaining existing work and securing long-term contracts exposed the company to extreme risk which led to enormous lay offs with little obvious accountability. Navanti is the exception to the rule that you should judge a CEO by the people he hires -- there are great people at this company led by fools. Failures come from the top, CEO and upper management have no vision and are out of touch with employees' work and client needs. The trend has continued as the company chases after short-term work the company is ill-suited for that turns analysts into temps. While flex Fridays are great, the work from home policy is an excuse for middle managers to micromanage and verbally torment employees on snow days, holidays, sick days, and weekends. Some middle managers lack boundaries, disrespect employee work/life balance, and belittle employees without remorse, and treat employees like property Senior management ignores staff concerns. Managers often fair, but some play favorites and keep dead weight around. Too much focus on over promising to clients and with nonsense jargon about big data and expensive multi-year projects that waste company money and employees' time while under staffing, under funding projects and devaluing employees. Incompetent employees are hired and kept on for opaque and incoherent reasons. People with good ideas get caught in the cross fire between the egos of people only concerned with their own position. Real struggle to get fair compensation. No coherent company culture.