From the culture of abuse marketed as “Feedback” to leadership’s complete inability to establish any of their growth targets, its hard to know where to start when it comes to how bad it is to work at this company. Turnover has always been insanely high and it’s because once you join, you realize this firm doesn’t actually have expertise in anything.
The majority of the firm’s growth has been artificially boosted by a partnership with BCG which they say serves as a “mentor” firm. I’m not joking when I say it takes one conversation with a BCG employee to learn they find Rios to be a complete joke. They just use the firm to pass off the work they don’t want to do. Outside of BCG, the firm’s independent business development efforts are insanely unethical. I worked on some of these efforts during my time at the firm where I saw leadership very explicitly take work that the BCG counterparts performed on joint projects and try to pass it off as their own. The really sad part is that not even this practice helped the firm to win any contracts. This is possibly due to the fact that it takes one conversation with the firm’s leadership to learn that they have zero practical experience in the subject matter of the projects they bid for.
If anything already written does not convince you to avoid this company, the pay is horrid. This is not an exaggeration: At the Analyst and Senior Analyst levels, Rios Partners pays below what is considered a livable yearly wage for the geographic area it serves. They say this is justified by a better work life balance and terrible insurance coverage they try to gaslight you into thinking is really good. Listen to the other reviews and get away while you still can.
This place is a sinking ship.
