Old school consulting - Consultant Mercer Employee Review

2.0
Aug 4, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Vacation time is generous if you can take it. Mature employees. Really good on diversity and inclusion. Some really smart highly knowledgeable SMEs.

Cons

Zero onboarding. Very old school tops down management. Billable hour targets changed mid year without warning. Terrible IT infrastructure - hard to get your client work done. Nepotism was a big issue on my team. No rhyme or reason on bonus payouts - you get what you get but don’t ask why or how it was calculated. Probably the biggest issue is low salaries and zero to barely there annual increase. For an HR company there is zero HR and the cobblers children really have no shoes. Losing a lot of people over the last year mainly due to wage issue and employees leaving for higher salaries and better management.

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5.0
Jan 11, 2026
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Pros

The leadership, communication, early career growth, and environment is very positive.

Cons

None, it was a great company to be at.

2.0
Jun 2, 2026
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Pros

Remote flexibility, which is nice.

Cons

You will not get a raise and if you do, it'll be 1%. Managers will not help you with escalating issues, you're on your own. It'll be blamed on you. You'll work so much overtime you won't have a social life.

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