Orbis Risk Consulting Reviews

On the pay and benefits side. The pay is well below industry standard and the bonus structure is not made clear to employees. The amount of constant overtime on nights and weekends never comes back when it come bonus season. The health benefits are also well below industry standards. For a small firm, you would expect they would offer higher compensation to compete with the big names in the industry, but this is not the case. The constant overtime, is due in large part to unclear expectations, general confusion, poor time management and the inability of the firm to maintain staff for more than a year, requiring constant stop-gap measures to plug the holes. The partners do not communicate well with staff, often insulting and belittling them in front of other staff members and to other staff members. The environment is consistently negative, and partners manage through fear and threats, this approach is evident in the fact that they cannot keep their employees. There are so many great firms in the city, make the right choice, and reach out to former employees if you can, before making a decision you will regret.

Partners have no concept of human resources management. They serve their clients exceptionally, but employees are treated like incompetents (most of the staff are junior, and management refuses to spend time training because "We have no time for that", and they also see no benefit to an onboarding program; of course they're going to have a challenging time meeting expectations). On that note, expectations are not clearly expressed, and regularly change without notice. A commitment to work/life balance is lip service, but certainly not embraced by the organization. Anyone not running up significant (unpaid - this is consulting) overtime is derided as not a hard worker. Turnover was about 80% in the time I was there and almost no one had been there for over a year, which should indicate something of how staff are treated. Salary portion of compensation is similar to other larger firms for more junior positions, however the full compensation package (benefits, professional development, no pension, etc.) is far below those firms. A smaller full compensation package is expected for smaller firms, but perhaps the salary could compensate that.