Well paid but morally dubious
Pros
- Reasonably well paid, progression is fast if you start off in a low position. - The consulting team are intelligent and engaging. - You learn some useful business skills, namely interviewing and portfolio management.
Cons
- Upper management are increasingly out of touch. Extreme pressure put on consultants to meet arbitrary targets despite sustained volume of delivery and noticeable exhaustion throughout the consulting team. - Attitude of management to employees who choose to move on is unacceptable, bad mouthing ex-employees openly and making snide comments about consultants on their notice period. - Promotions are based on a "perception" model, which is basically a weak excuse to empower increasingly distant managers to make lazy assumptions based on perceived flaws that aren't backed by any evidence or metrics. - Pressure to invoice incomplete client claims to meet arbitrary month-end targets, making it difficult to manage client expectations as there really isn't any justification to do this other than to pad Leyton's bottom line (this can be easily proven through examining email and invoice records). - Company is extremely cash rich, but refuses to invest in proper technology or processes. Most of the profit is filtered to C-grade vanity projects (sailing), sales and director salaries. - Despite comments made by the "head of recruitment" account to other reviews, progression is hugely based on who you know and how much you suck up to them. Progressing beyond senior basically requires others to leave, or for you to be earmarked for it from early days. - Return to office was forced too soon and too recklessly. Numerous COVID outbreaks covered up. Several consultants benefitted from the flexibility of home working. 1-2 days a week WFH made it clear where management stood on office vs home working. - The hours are long. You sign away your right to work less than 45 hours up front in the contract, and the work day is longer than average (8-5). We used to only really work overtime in big months (March, June, December), but this fluctuation has evened out over the last 2 years and we're expected to be full-on pretty much all of the time. - The company enables and actively rewards dishonest or misleading behaviour. Individuals (sales and consulting) who are less honest on how they do their work are not scrutinised or reprimanded sufficiently, leaving room for manipulation of lower-level colleagues.
