ZS Associates reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(9,835 total reviews)
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Pratap Khedkar

76% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

ZS Associates has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 9,835 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ZS Associates 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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10K reviews
4.0
Apr 9, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

You'll learn a vast number of tools and practice areas within a short period of time. They compensate very well.

Cons

Despite what they advertise, they don't care too much about work/life balance. They need mules at all levels.

3.0
Oct 30, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

became good at communication and soft skills esp slide making and crafting emails learnt office politics and importance of it for career growth collaborative culture is passed on by Kellogg professors is awesome

Cons

1. In an effort to grow faster new managers/consultants are hired from the industry but often they bring their own baggage (kissing up and crapping down) from previous jobs. Even hiring one wrong fit at senior level screws many junior team members who may actually have stayed at ZS 2. Billing rates are insanely high compared to normal IT companies. People get over this by working 80 hrs but billing only 40hrs. 3. Partners have become lazy and usually keep high performing managers under them who work like slaves in hopes of becoming partner. Bar for making partner keeps increasing every year. Managers are too hard on teams since they think they put through this and its normal 4. I miss the ZS where transparency was encouraged . It has now become a political place

1.0
Jul 30, 2021

Blood sucking company

Recommend
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Pros

If you are too workaholic (agree to work for 12 hours a day) and don't have any personal life or family, want to do monotonous work then go for it. Stay in this company for years.

Cons

It is literally a blood-sucking company. They will make you work at least 12 hours a day. The staff you in a project 4 projects for 10 hours each and will make you work for 80 hours a week. That's why I said it is a blood-sucking company. You will never ever have a choice on which project you wish to work on. And the worst part is once you are assigned to a project and don't like it, no one will ever listen to you and help you to get out of it. Come on ZS! Have some sympathy for your employees. Don't treat them as robots for god sake.

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ZS Associates Response
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We were sorry that you did not have a good experience at ZS. Globally, we have grown at such a tremendous pace even during the pandemic, and you have most likely felt some of the growing pains from this very unique moment in our history. No doubt it has been a challenging time for all, and during this moment our HR teams have worked hard to support the wellness needs and mental health of our people with benefits and programs. Our goal is to always follow our values and to support our people especially helping them manage workload and stress. We'd like a chance to learn what can be improved and welcome you to contact us to share your feedback. We're sorry ZS was not a good fit for you and wish you the best in your next role.
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