Culture of Non-Performers - Senior Associate Kroll Employee Review

1.0
5 May 2010
Recommend
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Pros

You determine how much responsibility you will take on. Great people to work with, managers are supportive and flexible schedule.

Cons

Senior management has done a great of job of promoting a slacker culture at Duff & Phelps. Strong performers at an analyst/associate levels with 100% utilization (which means lots of weekends in the office and NO social life) get about $5,000 in bonus at year end, whereas slackers that do the absolute minimum and hit their 80% or sometimes 70% target get nothing (and have a GREAT work life balance). In summary, work hard and get $5,000 pretax or just cruise along and get $0. The choice is clear, don't work hard.

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Cons

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Pros

It can give interns their first glimpse into Fortune 500 client work. One of the few opportunities that directly seeks after political science students.

Cons

I had a terrible experience with most managers. They had a tendency to openly question the intelligence and professional capabilities of interns; mind you, undergraduate and graduate students, which is the worst thing for someone in that stage to hear. When I pushed back on a manager who questioned my intellectual ability to do analytical work, I was labeled as combative and almost fired. As a result of my vocality, certain managers pretended like I didn't exist to them, something I still find traumatic in hindsight this day. I know other interns and externs were also openly told they didn't have the intellectual ability to perform their work at a high level.

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