Pros
Friendly & helpful colleagues, interesting set of clients
Cons
Unless you are based in the London (Blue Fin) offices, you are all but invisible to the practice heads and heads of service lines. Many staff work from client offices, where they are cut off from the rest of the company. The performance review process works on the basis of a score for each project you work on and then an overall score for the year. This process takes more than 3 months to complete each year (yes, three months!) and culminates in a moderation meeting where managers from other parts of the business will review your score and change it if they see fit. If you are able to network with the right people throughout the year, your score will be left intact, or even increased. If you have the misfortune to be working from the Gloucester or Guildford offices, or a client's office, you will inevitably be marked down. In Detica you don't get promoted for being good at doing client work, it's all about the internal work you do (which you have to do in your own time to stand any chance of promotion) and which senior managers & executive managers know you. All the benefits that previously existed have been stripped away in the last year, even including the soft drinks & biscuits in the offices. Pay is below average. As a new graduate you can expect below £30k. After a few years, as a senior consultant, you can expect just over £30k... Don't waste your time here, especially as a business consultant. Detica's consulting business says it wants to be at the forefront of Detica's work, yet the company sells almost no advisory work. You can expect to be shoved into any role going...