ERM reviews

I really wish someone would have explained to me the internal ops structure at ERM before I accepted my position. I felt like I was apart of a high school popularity project trying to prove to others my qualifications and how much I could contribute to a billable project. ERM has a lot of very talented employees that underutilized the benefits and skills they could have brought to the table. Another huge con was the fact that your performance is basically souly focused on how many billable hours you were able to get, which required sucking up to partners to try to convince them to take you on a client project. All work outside of that is poorly valued which makes things hard starting out.

Career progression is so so awful. There was a restructuring of the career 'hierarchy' last year, which ultimately screwed over junior staff. In putting half-step promotions, it's made it harder to get the same title people once could. I can see and hear all the praise and recognition, but when it comes down to evaluation periods, I basically have to beg for a promotion and raise.