Ankura reviews

Ankura' environment is extremely toxic. Ankura keeps a tight leash on us. When we try to provide constructive criticism for it to improve the quality for its employees, our supervisors and Hunan Resources department retaliates. In fact, our head of Human Resources who was the head of a Fortune 500 company quit. She tried to change so much and the CEO and upper management were not having it. And currrently, we have no Human Resources manager (the position has been empty for a good 4 months. This company needs so much work. Ankura underpays it's junior staff and mistreats all besides it's management team. I would not want to be a person of color and certainly not a women at this company. Look at our website, there is no diversity at all. Unfortunately, the CEO and upper management is aware of all of this but they just sweep it under the rug. In addition to this. This company doesn't invest at all in those keeping this company afloat. They continue to hire Managing Directors and continue to underpay us. The only reason someone would work at Ankura is because of the title and then jumping out as quickly as you can.

HR is an absolute mess (and by that I mean the most horrendous I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with), higher level management is too engrossed in keeping the boat afloat to care about addressing the issues, turnover is high, pay is below market, work is boring and repetitive, advancement is a joke, benefits are garbage, communication with senior level people is non-existent, they won't follow your employment agreement, you get the idea. I was literally told by my manager that the way to succeed at this company was to let him take credit for my work. It's a mill, so if you go in with the mentality that this isn't a long term place to stay and understand that "hourly" to them actually means "billable hour" (the two are extremely different), then you'll understand why you'll be looking for a new job by week 2.