ICF good potential, suffering some growing pains - Project Manager ICF Employee Review

3.0
29 Oct 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility to work off-site and from home, with a good work-life balance (generally no more than 50 hours/week). Smaller practices and lines of business make it easier to get to know senior management. Everyone generally has an open door policy and senior managers are easy to approach. Company is growing with a variety of new opportunities, particularly good if you are interested in consulting for the public sector.

Cons

Focus is primarily on the federal government, so if you're looking to get into consulting for the commercial sector, ICF is not the best bet unless you have a focus on the energy industry. Company is growing, so strategic direction, communication, priorities, and expectations are not always clear. Management's focus is very heavy on employee utilization, making it difficult to maintain a "bench", focus on developing offerings, and growing business. Pooir internal communication and information sharing about the full range of offerings and capabilities within the company, making it difficult to cross-sell or to tap into specific areas of expertise quickly, so sometimes feels like you're reinventing the wheel on projects.

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5.0
20 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

People, Mission, Culture, Technology, Remote. You work on projects and technologies that actually impact and improves the day to day lives of people around you, the community and the Country

Cons

Pay, No much room for upward mobility. If you are a high performer, you'll struggle as the structure rewards years spent in the company vs level of expertise or experience.

5.0
23 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome training and good benefits.

Cons

I cant think of any.

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