Cardinal Solutions reviews

Healthy work/life balance is encouraged and reinforced with a great personal/sick time policy. Cardinal has great relationships with many high profile clients and carries a lot of respect. Hard work and diligence is rewarded, and the management and team leads are wonderful people who care about the growth of individuals. Training and on-going education is encouraged and they offer ample opportunity to do so, including tuition reimbursement. The benefits package is far above average. Bench-time layoffs are seemingly nonexistent, and they do their best to keep you on projects that will keep you challenged and growing in your skill set. With a heavy emphasis on culture there is no shortage of social events, all of which they happily foot the bill for. There is a healthy mixture of industry veterans and fresh faces, which brings great balance to team work.

Cardinal is a place where advancement is in your own hands. My outlook has always been that performing great at the client is the baseline at Cardinal and to really stand out it takes more. Figuring out what "more" is can be helped by asking your practice manager and team lead. It is usually anything from presenting a topic at a practice meeting, developing internal training, or picking up extra client work. I also like how aggressive they have been with expanding their market cities. When I started 3 years ago the Charlotte office had just opened and a new one in Raleigh came shortly thereafter. The new office strategy is based on sending a couple of current employees to start it out which makes it a great way to advance if you are willing to move to a new city. The Cincinnati culture is relaxed and fun with social events all throughout the year. The events are usually monthly and can range from family friendly outings to movie nights (Dark Knight Rises this year) to sand volleyball happy hours. Typically my happy hour experience ends up with less drinking and more arguing about which scifi shows are better. Probably my favorite aspect of Cardinal is the employee development. They have a lot of classes that run year round to improve your skills as a consultant. Off the top of my head I can think of a few project management type classes and a public speaking course that seems to be a big hit. I remember when the mobile market really started emerging there was a cross-practice meetup that formed to do research on how to best get our employees ramped up.