Baringa Partners Reviews

Pros

Great coaching and development, people genuinely help when you need it (and know their stuff), and a massive focus on culture. I feel like I can be myself and not a ‘corporate version’.

Cons

Coming from a big shiny firm, the office isn’t as high tech as I’m used too. However, i’d rather the partners spend the money on other things like the company holiday and training, than iPads on reception.

Advice to Management

Keep the ratio of partners to Non-partners. We have great access to your experience and want to keep it that way.

Pros

Many reviews here are criticised for being fake, one-sided or posted by very disgruntled former employees. I am a former employee, but I am not disgruntled. Overall I enjoyed my time at Baringa but I have come to the conclusion that this was not a place to build a career. I have included in my review below an honest account and examples of what it did not work for me in the hope that these insights may help potential...

Cons

Where Baringa falls down is in the business basics: - The office space is not engaging or set up for collaborative working. It is not fit for the size of the firm so many people don't come into the office at all as there are no desks for them. This impacts on team morale, inclusiveness and creates barriers within teams. I understand there was an opportunity to address this recently when their current office space contract...

Advice to Management

Take a step back and focus on fixing what you have before growing beyond control. Almost everything listed in the Cons section can be made actionable. They may appear as small things individually, but when you add them all up they really do weigh upon your employees. Senior leaders need a little dose of reality, and to walk in the junior ranks shoes asking if they truly believe they are providing a "great place to work"...

Pros

The company lives on having a different culture to the big consulting firms. And there is a lot of effort in the company to be different and have certain mechanisms in play to create that atmosphere. The company events are really important to everybody, and a lot of effort (and expense) is put into them. And it is this whole 'culture' ethos that makes people behave in a friendly way. As Baringa recruits from other big...

Cons

I feel this whole talk of culture has become a facade. For me the most important thing about work is that satisfaction of learning, developing and doing good. This was lacking from my point of view. I joined a new practice where the type of work was not that important as long it helped to reach the annual revenue target. And aggressive targets, in my experience, mean that individual development becomes second or third...

Pros

the old crew still sticks to the core values

Cons

new leadership pretty much destroyed the company

Pros

Dynamic, personable leaders, lots of people who care, a team able to make things happen autonomously

Cons

Hard to find a seat on fridays

Pros

After a number of years, I feel gratefull for Baringa inviting me to a world of consulting from industry. They took a leap of faith. I did as well. It paid out for both - in revenues, and mutual development. I arrived at the time when company was small enough for senior team to immediately know your name when bumping with you at the elevator. We are bigger now. Being bigger allows to go after bigger goals...it also comes...

Cons

There are colleagues who see glass more empty - fair enough. To me, this is fine. I worked in quite a few organisations - Baringa is as good as it gets, for a commercial advisory business. So there was some truth to posts “like a glove” from July 2017 - leadership picked up on those. Did they do a perfect job? Well join, and help further.

Advice to Management

Keep hiring great people - like you do... And lets change tradition of annual thank you to partners for keeping up with flexible work - it is from old times; now often both have a career....do keep inviting partners those to dinners like in Shard or Guildhall....that work wonders...

Pros

Company events, CEO, benefits, Recruitment team, location

Cons

Fake culture and it's all they care about is statistics... there is no real involment in developing people or skills, not a balanced workforce..

Pros

I left Baringa over the last few months and while I did not initially intend to leave a review I was quite surprised to read some overly exaggerated negative feedback and thought I could share mine. Let's start with what Baringa does well: - Probably the best working culture I have ever experienced in my career - Good non cash benefits (e.g. healthcare and travel cover) - Good understanding that being away from home...

Cons

- Pension is absolutely not up to what a company of that size should offer, you get the mandatory minimum - Bonus is not really a bonus but a profit share scheme, it looked like it is below competition for a given grade and banding (at least when I compared against my friends') - Probably too much communication on why Baringa is great, especially when it comes to work life balance. While I had a fantastic time overall...

Advice to Management

- Increase pension contributions, if reluctant to increase base pension then increase matching to 5/6/7 or even 8% - Communicate less aggressively and why we are a Great Place to Work, explore more what Baringa is not good at and be open about it. - Reduce the number of internal initiatives consultants have to be involved in, half of them do not lead to anything and they do have an impact on work life balance as time...