A clear and determined focus on talent development combined with an accelerated career path
Pros
- Excellent focus on talent-development. Employees are treated as the company's greatest asset. - Accelerated career path is intended to guide each consultant to be a well-rounded executive. - Strong company culture focused on constant improvement, growth, and collaboration. - The entire organization is set up to foster collaboration, not competition, between employees. The pay scale is completely transparent - any employee at a certain level gets paid the same as all other employees at the same level. Advancement (promotion) is based on pre-determined expectations, rather than how you compare against your peers or how many positions at the next level are available. A large part of the expectations for advancement is based on helping other co-workers in their own growth. - Strong mentorship program. You're assigned a mentor when you begin your career and you'll have a mentor throughout your employment, whom you meet with regularly. - Executives and upper management are some of the best and most honest individuals I've had the pleasure of working with. Executives come to company gatherings and socialize with all employees. There are no noticeable niches or cliques. - Strong emphasis on community service and giving back to the community. - Low travel, especially for consulting. - Challenging projects combined with strong team support keep the work exciting. - Good work-life balance. I've been here for a few years and average 43-48 hours/week (typically 43 on client work, and 5 on training, community service, development, reading business books, etc.). - Good benefits and PTO. - Strong company values of integrity, honesty, openness. (I know everyone says this about their company, but working at Pariveda really makes me want to be a better, more honest, more well-rounded person). - In particular, the Houston office is a great place to work with low cost of living combined with competitive pay, great clients, and lots of things to do around the city.
Cons
- Consulting work can sometimes be quite challenging and require all your mental capacity, but working hard just helps me sleep better at night, so I don't think it's that big of a con. But expect to work hard if you work here. You might not work super long hours, but they're typically engaged hours where you're working your brain on full throttle. I kind of find that to be a pro though.