Decent place to work for your first job out of college, but not if you want to be consistently challenged. - Senior Consultant - Financial Advisory Protiviti Employee Review

3.0
Jan 7, 2024
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Pros

- Semi-competitive pay - Friendly people - Exposure to a lot of industries - Employee-first culture

Cons

- Somewhat tricky to switch to other functional areas (tech, risk/compliance, etc.) -- also takes a few years - Not the most sensitive to employee wants re: types of work, staffing is kind of at the mercy of EM wants. - Repetitive work, depending on the functional area you're coded to - Used to have good WLB, in the past 1-2 years or so, the expectation is that you work more (with no pay for overtime--standard for most firms--but still) depending on your team. Some are more laid-back, others are insane. Very EM-driven, so you either get lucky, or you don't.

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5.0
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Pros

The WLB, people, and projects

Cons

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3.0
Jul 2, 2026
Recommend
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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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