Protiviti reviews

Once you achieve Senior Manager or Associate Director, you will unfortunately get a front row seat in witnessing the backstabbing, indecision, and confusion that is Protiviti's executive and MD leadership team(s). They have over diversified themselves to the point of complete confusion. If you need proof, look at the confusion associated with how they align themselves internally. They restructured 2 years ago and no one knew what it meant, they did it again last year by renaming all their services and no one knew who they reported to, now they are doing it again. That much change, leads me to think Protiviti no longer knows who they are, or what they want to be....this has resulted in MD's blazing their own trails, and operating individually. In my opinion, this is why they are experiencing success in pockets, and not across an entire service offering, they are in effect....not operating as a team, but as a series of small practices associated by name only.

The biggest problem with Protiviti is it's office culture. It's barely a step above a frat house. The average new hire is hired based on how they fit this culture, not whether they have the experience and intelligence to succeed. One look at any of their office recruiting calendars will make this obviously - they make sure to hit all the local homecoming games and state schools, but completely ignore the good ones. I can't even tell you the number of racist and sexist comments I've heard from people. The workforce is only about 15% female, and they're usually treated with the sort of sexist attitudes that should have died decades ago. I honestly can't believe that there hasn't been a sexual harassment or discrimination lawsuit yet.