Overworked! Stressed! - Research Associate Perrett Laver Employee Review

Supporting mission-driven organizations across the world with securing top talent is at a high level exciting and meaningful. The day to day reality is grueling as the business is run very poorly. The business model is to burn through staff not develop them.

If you are straight out of uni and desperate for a first job then there are things you can learn here - but do not stay longer than 1-2 years. The pay is very low and the expectations are very high. Opportunities for career development will be dangled in front of you but these do not come with any training, mentorship or much more money. If you are looking to join as a partner or consultant, look elsewhere. The partner culture is extremely toxic and primarily made up of people who have worked there for 10+ years and don’t like each other.

Exposure to international candidates and clients

Consistent lack of communication/transparency regarding progression, salary and the firm's general direction. Training is poor and lacks standarised practice. Progression is determined entirely via favouritism and not by competency (their KPIs are not standarised). Poor salary compensation and will not match costs of inflation. In 2023, it was roughly 15% below the market rate. Consultants who have been "brought up in the firm" have zero management training and often bully/belittle junior colleagues. Management (from direct report to London managing partner to global partners) are completely uneducated on human sustainability and cannot integrate behaviour/compentency-based metrics. Their tech is too outdated to gather the relevant data and they wouldn't know how to read it if they did.