Welcome to the mad house - Consultant Mackenzie Stuart Employee Review

Let's begin with the fact that this company is successful in what it sets out to achieve - make money at all costs. However, the business model is not conducive to long term relationships with clients or candidates and it is actively encouraged to postpone fee discussions with clients in order to screw them for as much money as possible. They then wonder why they don't get any repeat business. No one is ever allowed to meet clients or candidates, as if the meeting isn't going to result in instant revenue then it's not allowed. The commission structure IS uncapped, that part is true. However the likelihood of making anything like the money they talk of is virtually non-existent. Even if you do have one big commission, the process is likely to have destroyed several business relationships so it won't happen again any time soon. Management at this company is belligerent, duplicitous and only focussed on their own gain, resulting in some of the most selfish people you will encounter. Management meetings appear to be 10 men in a room shouting and laughing at each other for 3 hours - who wants to be a manager?The Directors are really the only characters in this charade that stand to gain, and I'm sure even they know it isn't sustainable forever. At some point those auditors are going to have a look into this company and many others like it, no matter how many times they spin off subsidiary companies. Somehow this business manages to suck some of the best graduates in off the streets, into the battery chicken farm where they are forced to lay as many golden eggs as possible until they inevitably leave in anywhere from 3-12 months. Frustrating, as there are plenty of respectable SMEs and MNCs in Leeds who could offer these people a proper career. The company prides itself on their 'end-of-period' events. What these are, is when the two glorious leaders take their pack of sentient beings out onto the streets of Leeds in search of venues they are not banned from, then proceeding to ensure everyone is too intoxicated to remember anything anyway. Main events of the day can include (but are not limited to); making consultants do forfeits, throwing phones off bar balconies, throwing money at bar staff and generally abusing people, etc. Actually leaving this business is a complete debacle in itself. You will be taken into a room, shouted at for an hour and told you will never amount to anything and that Mackenzie Stuart was the best thing that would ever happen to you. However at the same time, you'll be asked to stay. It's really quite confusing. Shouted and sworn at numerous times, and then asked to stay. Please take a moment to consider the fact that the longer more detailed reviews on here are all negative, whilst the positive ones are all the same format, and basically paraphrase the graduate brochure they distribute. 'Cons: Long hours (but that was made very clear in the interview!)' etc. Seriously, in between bouts of dragging people into meeting rooms to scream at them, you could try harder with the fake reviews. You will also notice some of the incorrect apostrophe use in the reviews concurrent with the company website. If you like working for 12 hours a day to build a client network of cobwebs and then scrabble up the scree slope towards the money at the top, not receiving any sort of training, being taken into a room and called various names and being taken for mindless days out each month; then please apply immediately - they are looking for people like you. Good luck.