Overrated - Consultant BTS Employee Review

2.0
Dec 15, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good global culture, mainly in big offices (London, USA, Sweden...). If you're in Mexico, forget the corporate values listed on the website. People will be mean, small-minded and nobody cares (even though they say the opposite). Mexico City's office has great, highly skilled and very likeable junior consultants.

Cons

In Latam and Southern Europe, career progression is incredibly slow. Any Big4 is far better in this! It will basically depend of the projects you get assigned to, and that's a very biased process. Besides, in Mexico there's a huge skill gap between senior managers and consultants. You would expect that a "self-called" consulting firm would have top notch senior managers, but no. Most don't have financial literacy, excel skills or even a decent command of english... This wildly contrasts with junior consultants which come from the best business schools and universities. This is a firm focused on Learning & Development. Period! Forget "Strategy", this is a word repeated too often to fool clients and employees. You will be teached the basics on finance and that's what you'll ever need. If you come from a business background, the job may not be fullfilling. However if you come from a Psychology background, it can be interesting. Your main client stakeholder will always be HR people... and that basically says it all...

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Cons

In the 2 times I have worked for BTS I have been misled on the environment/situation I would be working in. Which has led to serious issues. The first time, I was recruited I moved my family across the country for a position that had 16 turnovers over a 2 year period due to the toxic government leadership. I was not given any heads up and was put in a seriously challenging position for both my career and financial wellbeing. The second time I took a job with BTS, I was told the contract had just been awarded for 5 years. However, once I arrived, again having moved my family across the country, I found out the contract was on a 6 month extension. There are other issues on the administrative side, and all I will recommend is to document everything. You WILL need the proof sometime down the road. All in all, I would say at times BTS was good, but mostly they operate in the morally gray to keep that top line up. Was fired over voicemail, for not working overtime (just working a standard 40 hour work week at night!) while I was recovering from the flu. No notice, no conversation, just canned. If management had taken a moment to speak with me, I could have provided email proof I had approval to take a slight step back while I and my family all recovered from the flu.

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