West Monroe reviews

Rescinding offers to new graduates after going through an arduous process is a step back and hurts the start of their career. Very lacking in empathy. Insane amount of corporate jargon will make your head spin. Everyone knows what "Rightsizing" really means, it feels insulting rather than morale boosting. Constantly feeling like you're left in the dark about the state of the market and personal growth. From a technical side, you're given a suite of trainings but no guide, you'll have to know the path you want and it might not even be marketable. Expect to stagnate quickly in your career, engagements can be cut whenever due to the type of contracts they sign and if you're not on an engagement you sit around twiddling your thumbs waiting for one to come by as there's no plan to keep you actively engaged.

West Monroe is a business strategy consultancy at its heart. It knows that most of its clients need to have strong competency in digital product offerings to remain relevant and so to be an effective consultancy, it needs to have digital competencies. WM's problem is it most definitely does not, despite its tagline of "Be Digital." So their answer to their problem is what any MBA grad would tell you to do: M&A. Acquire the competency by buying a company that already has it. Well, MBAs don't know jack about what it means to be creative and build things. They don't know how product teams function. They don't how mentorship works in those teams. They don't know how to build digital products. They don't know how to work with designers, engineers, and they definitely don't know how to define product. They don't know what work environments create optimal outcomes for those teams. So when West Monroe decided to acquire 2 software development agencies at the same time and execute a 3-way merger of cultures (already a horrible idea) and then impose their way of working on those acquired people, it's no surprise it didn't work out well. As an acquired employee, I could see things were headed in a bad direction, but gave it a chance before ultimately deciding enough was enough and leaving for much greener pastures. Attrition has been 📈 over the first year, most heavily amongst the most experienced people (i.e. the people with the most knowledge, experience, and ability -- the people you were trying to acquire the most). The morale has 📉. And people are still looking for exits. Then there's the layoffs. 7.5% laid off in December, right before the holidays. Merry Christmas!!! Don't work for this company if you take pride in your work. Don't work for this company if you care about your craft. Don't work for this company if you want to be more than a number. They'll chew you up and spit you out and you'll wonder why you wasted any of your life with them. Also, their compensation is subpar for the industry. Their salaries are okay, not amazing, but their total comp is really poor compared to what you can get elsewhere. Go somewhere where you get bonuses, get equity, and work on stuff you actually want to work on, not designing the next marketing PDF for a major bank or spending all day in meetings to discuss which cloud platform you're going to use to build a form for a major health insurance company that pushes people into bankruptcy every day.