Grossly Underpaid in Consulting; Average to Below Average People at Junior Levels - Associate Huron Consulting Group Employee Review

Junior people (below senior director) are often pretty bad in terms of business acumen, analytical skills, raw intelligence, problem solving, work standards, and leadership ability; leadership ability in junior leaders is non-existent; not real consulting, it's mostly implementations and grunt work; strategy work is non-existent, M&A, Pricing, Go-to-Market work is non-existent; mostly same things over and over; staffing is completely out of your hands; a resource management teams assigns available bodies to projects; you can't really turn down projects; project are mostly in small, distant cities; staying in average or below average hotels; about $50/day per diem for 3 meals; very very tight on expenses; GROSSLY underpaid compared to industry standards or other firms; bonuses are a joke; 4 rounds of layoffs in my 5 years; their model is training you vertically to be a SME in your area; zero exposure to other things or leadership training or business exposure; the work is grimmy; it's definitely not cutting edge or exciting; they've made a nice little niche doing grunt work implementations; junior leaders are really really good at shifting blame to keep themselves moving up; junior leaders treat direct reports like crap; the mediocrity of the talent shows in every facet of the business; complete lack of innovation will always prevent Huron from being a top tier firm or developing new lines of business; diversity is emphasized just barely to keep the pressure off, nothing that there is a real commitment towards; no office culture; no culture at all