Control Risks reviews

3.5

69% would recommend to a friend

(71 total reviews)

Bill Udell

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47% positive business outlook

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1.0
Aug 8, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Free air-conditioning from 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday only. Free water Free electricity Free access to bathroom Free facial tissue

Cons

*Homogeneous senior management (British, male, ex-government or journalist background) who promote and pay them selves bonuses at the expense of staff who add real value. Definitely a club mentality that exists. *If you are not a "native English speaker" (not Caucasian), you do not have any future here. Your work will always be inferior. Don't expect any significant promotions. *Poor financial management. The company ran it's finance to the ground from haphazard spending as well as poor account management. It's account receivables (primarily law firms) is astounding and probably not recoverable. The firm still refuses to acknowledge that working with law firms who don't pay on time is a bad way of doing business! *Ones dimensional way of thinking about its strategy. (Hire more people to increase revenue, we are control risks - clients should come to us for our reputation). The company operates in a highly competitive and niche market where smaller and cheaper companies who utilize technology and more efficient operations are gaining market share and working on tight margins. The company is delusional in thinking it's name has any brand equity amongst clients. *Mercurial company policies which protects unfair practices by senior management and is subject to change at the management as discretion. *Questionable values (ethics). The company recently hired a non executive director to provide strategic input and moral stewardship to the company. The said executive was once questioned by US government agencies during her tenure at a multinational bank about being implicated in facilitating money laundering for south American drug cartels. See "Dirty Money" on Netflix for more details. Again excellent choice for a moral steward and certainly reflects the company's values.

5.0
May 20, 2018

Director

Recommend
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Pros

Interesting work, ethical company and great colleagues. Global network, so plenty of opportunities for travel. The type of client projects are getting more complex and interesting.

Cons

As the complexity of projects increases, the internal management of the business gets more complex too. This can hamper competitiveness.

2.0
Feb 11, 2018

Not a good place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very global company - a lot of collaboration with offices around the world. Pays well

Cons

Very little emphasis on quality Bureaucratic - people's respect for each other is based on tenure rather than skill A lot of the work is executed by sub-contractors - not much field experience.

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