Senior Consultant - 3+ years - Anonymous employee Protiviti Employee Review

The words "Internal Audit" were not on any job description provided, and were not mentioned during any of my 5 interviews. Nonetheless, I have spent my entire Protiviti career within the Risk & Compliance solution working on Internal Audit projects. I genuinely feel that I have wasted significant years of my career developing these skills that I never wanted; and I am going to leave not having gained the true management consulting experience I wanted. Despite what you may hear in interviews and/or these Glassdoor reviews, Protiviti is an internal audit firm. Employees don't like talking about this in public because they want to be seen as consultants, but the most common internal complaint is that we do too much internal audit and people hate it. Unfortunately, this fact hurts your prospects for moving elsewhere because all you have are these very specific internal audit skills (and/or skills from your previous line of work) and if you want to make a lateral transition you have to take a similar job. This is a real issue, and it is not fair that I was never told the magnitude of projects consisting of Internal Audit within the Risk & Compliance solution. I would not have taken this position. I'd add that the benefits are subpar; and there aren't enough women in senior positions.