Strategic Communications: Where Your Soul Goes To Die - Associate, Strategic Communications FTI Consulting Employee Review

1.0
17 Jul 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work can be interesting at times, although not nearly as varied as it's made out to be.

Cons

Culture and environment are soul destroying and oppressive, with an entire team often working in total silence for whole day. Horrendous social politics within teams and between them. Treatment of graduates borders on abusive, with open discussion in front of them and the entire team about the cost of them and how they will get that money back out of them. FTI put on a good veneer, but it's a manipulative first world sweatshop. Expect to work 5+ hours more than anyone else in the team until someone else comes along that they can force to instead. I cannot list here all the ways in which the environment is made miserable and employees treated like donkeys. If these cons seem exaggerated, just look at the level of turnover for those in the first 3 years of their career. Also, the pay is below comparable PR consulting firms and bonuses regularly cancelled or reduced, regardless of performance.

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Cons

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Cons

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