Avoid - Consultant Forethought Research Employee Review

Having come from two years at a large management consulting firm, Forethought immediately provided exposure to wider project scope, responsibility and the most senior of clients at admirable brands. I have found the opportunities for growth at Forethought far exceeded those Accenture presented. Furthermore, working alongside some extremely intelligent and motivated colleagues and clients has stretched and challenged me, ultimately resulting in my professional and personal growth. Forethought has facilitated my ongoing career goals and enabled me to move first to Melbourne and later onto New York.

I see truth in some of the feedback colleagues have posted on here but would propose to others to consider that this sample is not a robust, nor entirely accurate of the population (stats pun intended). I see evidence of recent positive and proactive efforts to improve the workplace based on some of this feedback and feedback from existing colleagues. Consulting is a challenging career path, regardless of which firm you work for. Ensuring you're taking every opportunity presented to you and learning to work within the challenges will make you a better consultant.

A real growth environment and therefore there was constant opportunity. Team felt like family and are very supportive, Networking is useful, but management very is approachable and want to help you. They hire really smart people, mostly with postgrad qualifications such as masters or PhDs so if you’re keen to learn or if you’re unsure of something, you’ll have no shortage of teachers. Overall great experience, I’m very satisfied. They are incredibly supportive of employees taking maternity and paternity leave. There is an initiative called ‘forethought mums’ that’s all about being understanding and laying down the foundations to return happy and healthy to work. This creates a very cute community.

Can be long hours at times, but not as bad as others I've heard of. Email load at times can be pretty intense. Members of I.T are arrogant and not very approachable. The feeling is like they think everyone outside of IT is inept. Even ran a company master class on how to use an iPhone. Please. The ‘culture’ seems to get a bad rap but all I’ve ever experienced is pretty normal stuff. Can be a high-pressure environment, which can be hard on some, but motivating for others, just depends of the person.