Compass Lexecon Reviews

Pros

Culture is great Work hours are flexible Senior employees give you the time of day to explain concepts and to properly brief you

Cons

Working hours can be erratic, but it is the same across the industry. Cases can drag on much longer than expected

Pros

Work with smart people; build transferrable skills.

Cons

Very, very long hours for months on end without adequate compensation for over-time. Poor development opportunities, though this depends on the office.

Pros

Great atmosphere, very collaborative, lots of involvement with senior management, lots of contact with colleagues at other European offices, co-location with parent company makes it feel like a bigger company, semi transparent leadership team.

Cons

team can work very very long hours and can get very stressful, sometimes at the expenses of praise for hard work and feeling valued. stressful atmosphere sometimes means that people can become unresponsive and over focused. Management need to take more care of HR procedures and work with HR to uphold them. HR procedures not always upheld and followed.

Advice to Management

More transparency, more praise, follow HR procedures, better communication

Pros

Great variety with industries, projects. Exposure is fantastic because you are always working closely with the senior management. Secondments between European offices are very common.

Cons

Small company atmosphere can sometimes get in the way of simple things. Firm focuses only on competition (this applies to CL Europe only).

Advice to Management

Establish processes as the firm grows (which it is doing very fast).

Pros

Great perk. Pays ok. Work with a lot of smart people.

Cons

Work-life balance can be bad. The unpredictability of workload.

Pros

Great pool of peers to work with Free Friday lunches Decent office snacks

Cons

Absolute disrespect of work-life balance (above and beyond what is expected in the consulting industry) Unreasonable expectations that are not well communicated Disregard for meaningful career development Micromanagement stifles growth Overtime structure of payment promotes skewed incentives

Advice to Management

Listen to your analysts, senior analysts and economists when they express unhappiness and burnout - saying you do the same is not a solution Help junior staff take on more responsibilities and develop as well rounded workers Respect that analysts will complete their work and get things done and do not need to be micromanaged constantly

Pros

- Great opportunity to develop and improve data analysis and excel skills - Opportunity to contribute to high profile cases

Cons

- lack of professional development opportunities - poor exit opportunities - poor work/life balance - non-salaried (though 1.5x overtime pay)

Pros

good pay, good pool of other analysts to be miserable with

Cons

hours are tough, management doesn't respect your time, no career path forward