This place will lead to a decline in your health in every possible way - they prey upon fresh college graduates with no work experience. Take it from me, who was ranked #1 on the company’s leaderboard during my first 6 months, that this place is screwed up. You do not get overtime and they claim thst getting a bonus can account for you working late every single day of the week and on holidays, but these bonuses are dependent on luck because your performance is dependent on luck - your monthly targets have nothing to do with your competency and effort. Everything comes down to luck - whether your client has availability to meet with an expert, whether the expert has availability to meet with your client, whether the expert is willing to negotiate their consulting rate so that your performance is not penalized for an expensive call, whether an expert is telling the truth and is truly knowledgeable about your client’s subject — it all comes down to luck. It’s truly a foolish and toxic business model. I also observed no black or brown people in senior leadership. My former colleague, a black woman, applied for a transfer from consulting to sales after putting in 4 years of dedication in consulting, only to be told that she was “too experienced” and it would be too difficult for them to train her for a position in a new department — she found a new job two weeks later with a real research company. This company doesn’t promote black and brown people to go beyond senior associate, instead, they nitpick the work and value of having black and brown people in a way that they would never dare to do to white male counterparts who are underperforming. I also had a team member who would never eat throughout the work day, not even at socials after work, because she was abusing adderall to reach her monthly targets. However, she was praised and deemed a role model - eventually I saw the younger employees on my team who looked up to her start abusing adderall too.
