Overall Experience - Campus Recruiter Protiviti Employee Review

2.0
Feb 9, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

During my time, I worked with many leaders who wanted to be apart of the campus recruiting program and assist incoming consultant/interns. You have the full support of the senior leadership team to assist in hiring and developing the best. In addition, the morale in the DC office was always positive and welcoming for new associates.

Cons

Throughout my time working at Protiviti, it was difficult to understand how they push for diversity and inclusion where the recruiting team isn't diverse at all. Also, Protiviti has many high tenured management thus making it difficult to implement new ideas as people were "afraid" to break old processes and try new things. Due to leaders managing certain programs for so many years, they showed favoritism to certain managers. In addition, they are not able to keep consultant's pass 3 years not only due to the pay but also the scope of work that wasn't interesting. They were many leaders who would talk down to other supporting staff in any way in which HR did nothing about and always explained "that's just how that person is" which never made sense. Protiviti should work on learning how to be okay with change but also grow in the diversity realm to ensure we are bringing new diverse talent to the company consistently. Lastly, leaving the company was a bad experience as I was looked as like the outsider when I've seen other employees leave swiftly without any issues.

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Pros

The WLB, people, and projects

Cons

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3.0
Mar 29, 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

1) Chicago office has a good culture, overall. It’s not perfect but most of the people are great. 2) Work-life balance score has been solid (about 5+ years of insights here) 3) Although it was not great this year, Incentive compensation has overall been pretty good over the course of 5+ years. Much better than big 4 in my experience.

Cons

1) Since 2023, the culture hasn’t been great for a variety of reasons (mainly due to sluggish performance and growing too fast) 2) It feels more like a temporary staffing agency versus a consulting firm for a lot of the time. 3) There has been an awkward push for a return to the office and more business development focus that is in stark contrast to what most Protiviti people value. 4) Most people I talk to say they are not motivated by most of the MDs they interact with (this is significant in my opinion).

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