Pariveda reviews

- If you want to be a technical expert, go elsewhere. There's a ceiling you hit if you want to do individual contributor work at a high level. - Because of a lack of technical opportunities, there is massive brain drain of people leaving that occurs when people get to the Associate 2 and Manager level (I left right before Manager) . I was never happy with the quality of work we'd create because most people didn't actually care to implement the technology correctly, just meeting arbitrary client deadlines. - Leadership cares more about selling more work than building the things our clients actually need. This is particularly egregious for clients who don't bring their own technical expertise to the project, because nobody can tell Pariveda isn't doing good work. - Don't expect to get paid well in a technical position. Despite being mostly an IT consulting company, the salaries aren't comparable to industry at all. In addition, they don't adjust for cost of living nearly enough. Because leadership is based in Dallas, one of the cheapest locations of the Pariveda offices, they don't realize that their compensation is terrible in most of the other offices

Some projects can be a little mind-numbing. This is to be expected for any consultancy though, and Pariveda does a better job than most to find interesting work. Also some of the policies are a little old-fashioned for a tech firm (big emphasis on "butt-in-seat" hours, dress code, etc. Pay is also based out of Dallas with some small bumps for more expensive markets, so if you work in NYC, DC, SF, etc expect to be paid a little less than you would at a competitor in the same area. Overall the pros WAY outweigh the cons.