Pros
Smart, talented people doing good work beneath the c-suite and lots of flexibility.
Cons
• Expensive benefits. Health insurance cost more than $1100 a month, and the 401(k) is a joke -- how can a $2B company offer a discretionary match? I joined KF through an acquisition and the cost of benefits resulted in me taking a 25% hit to my take-home pay. • Disappointing culture, where success is predicated on personal closeness to Gary Burnison or how much you publicly profess your love for Korn Ferry. I've never worked anywhere so self-congratulatory. • Pleads poverty at every turn when it comes to resources, raises, or promotions •Awful onboarding and training—you get a PDF and links to one-size-fits-all videos. They introduced a mentorship program, but mentors were assigned based on tenure at KF, not actual seniority or career levels, so someone at a more senior level could (and often did) get matched with less experienced staff. • Despite public declarations otherwise, people do not matter here. All that matters is shareholders. This is evident from how they balanced the COVID-19 challenges on the backs of staff (mass layoffs and across-the-board double-digit salary cuts). More care was put into communicating the death of a board member than the layoffs and cutbacks.