CHA reviews about "manager"

Not staffed appropriately for the amount of work that is brought in.

Consulting is Cyclical, there are times with no work and some times with an abundant amount of work.

This company is very corporate like for a company that really is not that big. They act like they are a small company while at the same time preaching they are a big company (identity crisis). The IT department is very cliquey. The encourage people to not put in a ticket for an IT issue and just bombard the desktop team with their issue. If you cant help them right away, they are very impatient. Management is more concerned with furthering their own careers and their likability with other departments than managing the team. The manager of the team is both a director and a manager, to say he is out of touch with reality is an understatement. They tend to hire people who are stagnant in their careers for this position. They do not want to train anyone. Laziness is the biggest issue on the team. Stay away, you have been warned.

It sometimes feels like HR is out of touch with certain regions.

High high turnover. In my office, we lost ~80% of the mid-level management in a year and a half (project managers and section leaders). We lost probably 20% of the low level staff. No one is working in the office. Non-existent office culture as a result. Redundant management style. Lack of direction. Miscommunication, conflicting messaging, and unfulfilled promises.

Project managers are severely overworked leading to new engineers learning everything on their own with high utilization rates. There is a lot of gossiping, managers overseeing their best friends, and extremely dysfunctional teams with people openly breaking down in the office. If you can function on your own you can do decently well, but the culture needs a lot of work. I saw several new engineers given utilization rates around 95% who were not given much work to do and then were chastised for not hitting their utilization.