Guidehouse reviews

My tenure with Guidehouse LLC for over three years has been an extremely horrendous experience. In the beginning, the environment was more cohesive, warm, and integrated as the organization was sub-contracting for a larger firm. The dynamics with the team was very solid, clear, more open, and all-inclusive with the primary holder of the contract. The quality of the work product deliverable to include the team was very strong, concise, efficient, and effective. Though there were growing pains as it relates to the juggling act of the many tasks, meetings, and other objectives that needed to be met by the client, the group as a whole maintain a very positive attitude as well as a helping hand to ensure the team across the work streams were able to follow the request and deliver a very pleasing product. The experience at that time was very pleasant in which the employee felt very protected, experienced growth, and knowledge. A significant amount of overtime was incurred when sub-contracting for the larger firm, however, overtime was never an issue with management as there was an extensive amount of work that needed to be completed. Management requested suggestions and lessons learn from employees, which were applied to the upcoming fiscal year. As time progressed, and the organization were no longer sub-contracting for the larger firm, as the organization accepted an independent contract award, wonderful managers and other senior employees that brought years of experiences from major firms left the organization due to intense amount of stress, agitation, frustration, and hostility. This agony had a ripple effect on the employees as other senior leaders began to transfer out to other projects. During this timeframe, an extensive amount of turnover occurred. New managers and employees were brought/hired on the team as the connotation that “everyone is replaceable” was applied. Due to extreme pressure that the management team was experiencing, seasoned employees, transferred employees from other projects, and new employees began to experience the toxic, very intimidating environment. Management began to say whatever they want to people without any filters verbally on calls and in discussion meetings. Additionally, management began to belittle employees by telling them “You don’t know what you are doing”, “you need to become more prepared” during live in person meetings to include MS Teams phone call discussions; talking down to employees, even seasoned employees, as if they were beneath them, screaming during open dialects, disrespectful to others “I am talking to you!”; which caused several employees including myself to file a grievance with human resources and the ethics and compliance division. Nothing was done to create a harmonious environment. New employees that were hired on to the engagement started behaving and acting in the same manner and tone as the managers and other employees that were brought on from other engagements. They started assuming that seasoned employees work deliverables from previous fiscal years were wrong or incomplete (I just need the correct copy! I don’t care where it’s at! This looks incomplete!) when in fact the work was correct. These new employees are not experienced and are basing their assumptions/opinions from the new managers that recently joined the engagement. Management became very frustrated with the engagement to which no accountability, responsibility or liability was accounted for in the mistakes/error in delivery and communication in which the management team provided. You could feel that you were surrounded by demons or that demons were approaching you.

Interesting projects, good coworkers, opportunities for professional development.