Don’t buy in - Consultant Protiviti Employee Review

2.0
Sep 26, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This is a great place to go and work if you don’t know what you want to do or if you know for certain you want to be an auditor

Cons

Protiviti will try to convince you that they have legitimate consulting projects. They don’t. 80% of the work is auditing and to earn a chance at real BPI work you have to excel at auditing, which requires a completely different skill set. THIS IS NOT CONSULTING. This company will try to convince you that what you do has an element of creativity or problem solving but let me be clear, you are not doing this work because you have anything unique or special to add, you are doing this work because somebody has to. They see their employees as totally replaceable and to be honest the average employee here is. I have never in my life had the misfortune of being associated with such a painfully un-extraordinary group of people. another issue is that the culture around time is completely toxic. During my time at Protiviti I was reprimanded for charging too much and charging too little. Your hours billed YTD are shared to everyone and 100% of your bonus is tied to hours. Just don’t work here.

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Cons

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Pros

Good Culture, decent pay, not overworked too much.

Cons

Repetitive, meaningless, and boring work, hard to pivot out of this career once started. Also, the consulting career feels like such a fake job at times. Doesn't feel like real work. Makes you question your life decisions. I'd recommend any college grads to think about their future career goals first before joining. I joined on a whim and wish I spent more time interviewing. It's been incredibly difficult to pivot out of internal audit and sox compliance once you are in it. However, if you are really good at corporate politics and advocating for yourself you may be able to pivot out of the IAFA solution . However, not sure how that lends it self if you want to leave the company.

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