Huron Consulting Group reviews

-Non-transparent Exec Leadership (Healthcare) - the last round of layoffs were a shock to many folks. Some of the strongest performers in the practices were laid off, showing that management did a shear "this person is taking PTO next week and isn't on a project" and "this person is taking a 4-week recharge". Not the holistic approach that represents the transparent and wonderful culture that I thought I'd come to know -No cross-training (Healthcare related): once you're placed into a practice, you're pretty much silo'd into developing an expertise in that area. After 3 years of that, it's tough to switch out of consulting to a non-healthcare role if you kinda just fell into it right out of college (like most analysts) -Travel: Mon-Thurs every single week with a few work at home weeks out of the year takes a toll on people. They started doing some flexible Mon evening - Wed evening travel (mostly because of folks on compensatory on the projects), which is better.. -Strict "core competency" structure for development. It's pretty much a checklist of skillsets that you have to hit across the board, and even when you hit them, you may get a push back on your performance evaluation saying you were too focused on one area

Comp is often behind the curve by a year (they like to baseline against industry averages, but that means they only have last year's numbers). Despite efforts to get away from "time in grade" expectations, they are still very much swayed by it It's a consulting organization, so if you're not a consultant, expect some of the systems to treat you as an afterthought. Higher level ranks (Senior Director, Managing Director) really expect you to be in a selling role, which is problematic for roles that need top talent, but aren't customer facing. It has the bureaucracy of a much larger company, and subsequently can't get out of its own way sometimes. In the balance between managing the numbers and managing the people, the numbers seems to be getting increasing sway - it's leading to a less personable company than it used to be.