ZS Associates reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(505 total reviews)
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Pratap Khedkar

77% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

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2.0
Aug 23, 2012
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Pros

* Very smart, friendly people * Strong brand and credibility within healthcare industry * Many leadership opportunties * Decent pay and benefits * Great starting point for a career in healthcare - any other job will be a breeze after this

Cons

* Very long work hours. Be prepared to cancel vacations, pull all-nighters, and work on weekends and holidays. Plus, your Managers will expect you to be enthusiastic about it. * They "reward" their strongest people by dumping more and more work on them in an effort to give them "challenges" and "developmental opportunties." Then they hold you back from promotion when your performance slips because you were working 80hrs a week and getting no sleep. * Lots of pressure to use the India teams in order to cut costs, which results in weeks on end of 11pm calls with India. * Excessive requests to lead internal initiatives, many of which seem to exist solely so people can say they led a training - nevermind whether the training was actually useful or necessary. * No brand recognition outside of healthcare. Do not let them fool you into thinking that this will carry the same weight on your resume as one of the bigger strategy consulting firms.

4.0
Jun 24, 2012

Great people. Needs a bench for R&D.

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Pros

Co-workers are genuinely good people. Managers and up are friendly and accessible. Base pay is fair. (differs from hourly real wage)

Cons

Fractional staffing doesn't work terribly well -- Some sort of R&D (whether it be a bench or dedicated team) is needed. Work-life balance can be nonexistent, depending on the project.

3.0
Jun 23, 2012
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Pros

Great company culture Senior management generally respects associates time and needs decent pay + benefits

Cons

the type of work you do is mostly "bi*ch work" as you mostly do work that the pharma clients are too incompetent to do themselves. ZS considers itself to be a consulting firm but in reality I would venture that at most 10-20% of the projects could actually be considered consulting projects; the rest are just grunt work

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