Is Protiviti a good company to work for?

Protiviti has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 5,054 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months. 70% of employees would recommend working at Protiviti to a friend and 54% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Protiviti have been left by employees working as Managing Director , Intern - Hourly and Intern .

Does Protiviti pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Protiviti employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Protiviti. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Protiviti?

70% of Protiviti employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Protiviti 3.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.7 for culture and values and 3.5 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Protiviti?

Consultant (765) , Senior Consultant (643) , Manager (300) , Senior Manager (193) , Associate Director (113) , Intern (96) , Director (82) , Consultant II (62) , Deputy Manager (56) , Technology Consultant (55) , Managing Director (48) , AML Analyst (43) , Senior Consultant II (42) , Consultant 2 (40) , Analyst (38)

What are the pros of working at Protiviti according to real employee reviews?

"Great culture if you are a young professional out of college looking for a play hard mindset!" ((in 557 reviews)); "Great people to work with and young culture is excellent" ((in 501 reviews)); "Work Life Balance and Good Benefits" ((in 443 reviews)); "Good benefits and learning here" ((in 98 reviews)); "Great leadership and very supportive in making sure you succeed and thrive." ((in 90 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Protiviti according to real employee reviews?

"Pay is very low at the entry level and projects are extremely boring." ((in 189 reviews)); "Low Salary : Salary offered at Protiviti is lesser compared to most of its peers." ((in 131 reviews)); "Different managers have different "personalities and expectations."" ((in 63 reviews)); "the downside working at Protiviti is the low compensation" ((in 59 reviews)); "It logically follows that they offer employees little to no training on topics other than financial audit." ((in 54 reviews))

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What are the top reviewed Protiviti locations?

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3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(4,207 total reviews)

Joseph A. Tarantino

79% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

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Protiviti has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 4,207 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Protiviti employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.6 stars).

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4.0

Sep 2, 2016

On the ops side...

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Pros

Unparalleled project ownership, you can shape your own role, huge opportunity for impact, relatively little red tape. Good pay, subsidized benefits, emphasis on work/life balance. Recognition and appreciation abound.

Cons

Corporate politics like whoa. Legacy org structure that makes no sense. Seeming inability of leaders to make tough decisions, such as deprioritizing an obsolete initiative or declaring a project not up to par. Inability of upper levels to say no forces lower levels into weird, endless, unpleasant power struggles and makes it hard to get things done.

3.0

May 7, 2016

Senior Consultant

Anonymous employee

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Pros

-Substantial growth within the last 10 years means they're doing something right. There are extremely talented individuals in the firm and I have absolutely developed professionally during my time with Protiviti. -Pay is competitive with big 4 ACCOUNTING salaries (not to be confused with big 4 consulting - see cons for further explanation) -Variety of internal initiatives to broaden your network within the company and develop other skills. The I on Hunger initiative is awesome and a great way to get clients involved for a good cause.

Cons

-The fact that salaries at Protiviti are not commensurate with other consulting firm salaries like Deloitte and Accenture is not an accident. The truth about Protiviti is that most of the projects are not pure consulting - they are internal audit or loan staff projects. IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE THAT PROTIVITI IS A SUBSIDIARY OF ROBERT HALF (I.E. A TEMP-STAFFING FIRM). As such, Protiviti tends to be on par with other auditors. -Having come to Protiviti from industry, more transparency regarding the likelihood of working on internal audit projects would have been appreciated. Becoming a subject matter expert in Internal Audit wasn't exactly a lifelong dream and it wasn't mentioned AT ALL during the interview process. -Advice to those considering joining Protiviti: Know that this is not true consulting you're getting into. Strongly consider whether you want to spend critical years of your working career developing Internal Audit skills or working on simple loan staff projects. -Extremely expensive health benefits.

2.0

Jul 25, 2015

lost it's way

Anonymous employee

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Pros

good benefits, generally good and interesting peers, but questionable long term leadership hard to see how these guys will be successful long term.

Cons

This is an internal audit firm. if you do anything else, expect to marginalized and pushed into audit at the drop of a hat. might be good for auditors, but not for anyone else.

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