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      Guidehouse

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      3.1

      40% would recommend to a friend

      (2,791 total reviews)
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      Scott McIntyre

      38% approve of CEO

      33% positive business outlook

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      Guidehouse has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,791 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Guidehouse employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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      3K reviews
      1.0
      Dec 27, 2021

      Save Yourself. Don't join this company, and don't do like I did and try to ignore the negative reviews.

      Consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The client was better than the company itself.

      Cons

      Things went wrong for me from the beginning with this company. At the core of consulting is pleasing the client, working on business development to bring in more work, and getting involved in other things to expand your portfolio for all of the things you do for the firm. These are things that will get you promoted, raises, and bonuses. Consulting firms are all the same in that essence. What sets them a part is how they manage it and support people through all of this work. Making sure no one person is overworked and burnt out. This consulting firm does a TERRIBLE job at this. Don't think the DTO is a perk. Not many people actually use it. There is a LOT of turnover. There is no communication between leadership. People are shady.

      3.0
      Dec 24, 2021

      Great skill-building opportunities for young professionals

      Consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - For young professionals, fantastic way to rapidly build a lot of essential skill sets like change management, project management, stakeholder engagement, and communications - Opportunity to connect with wonderful mentors and coaches - Flexibility to "direct" yourself a little more toward the projects/engagements you're interested in - Opportunity to really "own" projects yourself and work directly with clients - Huge variety in types of engagements available (as with all large consulting companies) - Opportunity to request feedback from everyone on your team - and expectation to at least request to your managers at the end of the year! Highly recommend taking advantage of this and getting all the feedback to help you improve - In the public sector, good work life balance for most engagements - you can arrange to work about 40 hrs/week if you delegate effectively

      Cons

      - You have to track every single hour you work and bill it toward its respective project charge code - every single day - in an online application called Costpoint, which was designed in the depths of hell by a sadistic anti-UX maniac - If you don't log your time by 12pm each day, you get "docked" - this hurts your time compliance rate, which hurts your year-end Evaluation Potential - Your time logged determines your Utilization Rate (UR), a dystopian metric used to evaluate how well you are "utilized by the client" throughout the year. The goal is 90% - which means that you can spend up to 10% on vacation, sick days, or anything that isn't client-related (e.g. mandated Guidehouse-wide yearly trainings, business development work for Guidehouse, Guidehouse things etc.) - Welcome to consulting - you have been assimilated into the collective. Resistance is futile. Now let's just circle back together on that deliverable we were touching base on... - Yes, you do have to worry about your UR - and yes, you're expected to somehow do client work _and_ business development work for Guidehouse - If you go above 90%, this can be viewed as awesome (You're working hard! Hurray wage slavery!) or terrible (Boo, you filthy wage slave) - If you're not getting promoted, you will not get a decent raise or bonus o matter how hard you've killed that project. Inflation will cackle at the size of your puny raise - Some engagements are extremely disorganized, scaling rapidly, and short on manpower - so long, dear work life balance - Terrible onboarding for new hires and little coaching in "how to consultant." Total newbies? Sink or swim

      2.0
      Sep 22, 2021

      Run Away

      Senior consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The jobs are fairly easy and don't require a great amount of creativity. Salary is comparable to other consulting orgs, and management is generally hands-off.

      Cons

      Management of engagements can vary by projects and some are total messes, usually not fitting personnel for the roles they might be suited for, overpromising clients off scope work, and punishing lower level staff. Management can be out to lunch when you raise this with them, and don't tend to provide structure or strategy as to how to align contracts and client expectations. Management will throw you under the bus if it covers them.

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