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Charles River Associates

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Charles River Associates reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(603 total reviews)
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Paul Maleh

71% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Charles River Associates has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 603 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Charles River Associates employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.5 stars).

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603 reviews
2.0
Jun 26, 2024

Deteriorating Experience

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Pros

Offices are nice Pay OK as of a few years ago

Cons

Pay significantly lags competitors and it's getting worse, they said they were too aggressive on junior pay for the past few years yet so many people are leaving and the practice is understaffed Uses outdated tech/programming languages which are both expensive for the firm (cutting into salaries) and annoying to learn and use HR benefits and payroll prone to serious administrative errors

3.0
May 22, 2024

Poor work life balace

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Pros

- Good learning opportunity - Good team work - Decent benefits - Close to metro station - Free food

Cons

- Poor work life balance, no boundary between workhours non-workhours, weekday weekend etc. - Expectation to work 70+ hours per week for weeks leading to deadline - Not many exit options except econ consulting - Too much reliance on Stata - Most people at the top are anxious. The job will make you an anxious person.

3.0
Apr 19, 2022
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Pros

- Working with very smart people - Case work can be pretty interesting - Medical insurance is supposed to be good

Cons

- Weak response on pay increase (it was announced that we would get increases in 2021 but it took until April 2022 for the pay to be increased) - Weak response on RTO - No corporate gym membership discount or wellness benefit (get a small amount through insurance but not from the actual company) - Junior staff don't get their cell phone bills expensed despite having to use it for 2FA and for emails and messages - Poor expense reimbursement policy for exams

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