Hitachi Consulting Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Hitachi Consulting is a great place to work and grow your career. With backing of $100 billion Hitachi Ltd. and aggressive growth plans; the global leadership team is working on growth agenda which has people development at its core. The work environment is fair, cohesive and opportunities are in abundance.

Cons – Like any growing business at times challenges but leadership team is fully committed and taking responsibility

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to focus on growth and people development agenda

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good track record. Good peers!!

Cons – Inconsistent growth opportunities
Some people grow effortlessly and for some its always another stage...

Advice to Senior Management – Create opportunities for people to grow....

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Hitachi Consulting full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – I joined working for Edenbrook where I was working with some very smart people and learnt a lot. I learnt many new skills on the job. Edenbrook was a fairly small company so I felt very connected with everyone. We used to have a drink after work a lot and participate in other fun outside work activities otherwise known as an offsite within Microsoft.

Cons – When the Hitachi Consulting acquisition took place the whole place changed. Since the day Hitachi acquired Edenbrook, I never went on a offsite again. The training stopped also. With this many of the smart people I was used to working with, left Hitachi for other organizations, some decided to go contracting. This is when the churn began, the constant recruitment process.

If you are thinking about joining this company, I recommend you read all reviews here and make your own mind up.

There was also a massive disconnect between me and my manager. We never had regular 1:1's. Even review time was not done by my manager!

I had 0 flexibility, always being forced to drive 3hrs to a customers site when I could have worked from home quite easily enough.

I felt my career was going nowhere, I couldn't work on the projects I wanted, undertake training I needed or desired for my own personal career agenda (that was mapped to the future success of Hitachi).

Hitachi thinks they are on the same level as Accenture, IBM, HP and Microsoft. It is true they sometimes compete against those companies, but most times at a loss then the consultants onsite are expected to work all hours of the night to deliver it.

I was on one project (this particular project was known to everyone in the company due it being a complete failure) and I as were my colleagues often working every night until 7-8pm. Sometimes well into the night if a release into system test was due for the customer the next day.

Advice to Senior Management – I think you need to start over again. Look at all internal processes, training budgets, offshore arm etc

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Lots of oppertunity to work with different technologies and use different skill sets. Management and colleagues are very supportive.

Cons – It's a consulting firm, so travelling is a largte part of the job, and sometimes work/life balance suffers.

Advice to Senior Management – Remember you are a people business. Provide strong but empathetic leadership. Concentrate on providing thought leadership, make sure its visible outside by supporting MVP's etc...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – - Reputable name
- Able to be work on range of projects
- Varied client base
- Some capable and smart people to work with

Cons – - Fallout from catastrophic acquisition of Edenbrook: very poorly managed
- Management distant and out of touch with consultants
- Instability with frequent changes in leadership
- Atmosphere in office (London) like a morgue
- Low morale
- Terrible work/life balance: worst in my career by far
- Minimal prospects for training or any development
- Favouritism rampant: never made to feel part of anything unless your are pals with the 'right' people

Advice to Senior Management – Start over and remember that the consultants that work for you are people.
Stop pretending that you are a direct rival to Accenture, IBM or Logica etc. You are nowhere near and won't be for a long time.

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Great people who are passionate about technology
Provides very good training opportunities
Aquisitions will provide excellent opportunities for the future

Cons – Poor internal systems, especially timesheet system (Portera) and intranet
Lack of internal marketing
Poor collaboration between global teams (e.g. where do I find someone with experience in X)
Dreadful IT infrastructure

Advice to Senior Management – Replace tired internal systems
Get rid of "Front Porch" & replace with more collaborative systems
Improve IT infrastructure
Improve collaboration between teams using technology

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Hitachi Consultings not only provides a great location with London and Manchester but one of the real positives are the people aross the organisation. There are lots of opportunities for personal development.

Cons – It can be difficult to get the right work life balance but this is no different to any other consultancy that I have worked with previoulsy.

Advice to Senior Management – Communication and recognition for members of staff is vital for all consulting organisations. Great place to work and be associated with.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Recently moved to a very nice office; The people are pleasant;

Cons – Weak renumeration in comparison to it's competitors; A lack of development opportunities for talent; Been through significant change in the last 24 months;

Advice to Senior Management – Ensure the balance between business objectives and the development of talent; Seek better integration between employees;

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Compensation is somewhat better than elsewhere

Cons – Focus is on unpaid overtime, people are competing on who can put more hours in and very little attention is paid to the actual results

Advice to Senior Management – Profit sharing?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Consulting

Pros – Good people to work with, enthusiastic culture.
Focus on developing and growing the business.
Good projects and account opportunities. Great place for exposure to many different methodologies, projects and clients.
Leadership committed to making change and repsonding to concerns of the workforce.

Cons – Totally male dominated at the senior/ Vice President level.
Location is not very central.
Industry groups compete for good people and resources.
Still some VP's have their 'favourites' and other people don't get a chance.
Some of the selling methods are to pushy. A lot of presure to sell and meet revenue targets.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep to your commitments.
Provide more opportunities in senior positions for women and ethnic minorities.
Focus more on working as 'One team' rather than in industry silos.
Focus on rewarding thought leadership

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend