Frost & Sullivan reviews

Good if you don't plan to stay for too long. IT infrstructure is totally inadequate, salaries are too low and staff turnover is incredibly high. Management ignores those issues and don't mind seeing 20% of the work force leave every year. Management doesn't share information and you have a lot of back stabbing taking place as well, like superiors ridiculing junior staff during client meetings and justifying it later by the fact they had to go through the same thing in the past.

So far sounds like a great place to work, but reality is different - Salaries WAY below the market. Additionally to this, top management has decided that due to the recession, there will be no more bonuses to anyone, which has really taken a toll on people´s morale. Overseas, the company tries to give the minimum benefits permitted by the law. - Stretching the truth to clients. In the moment of truth, the sales team would agree to things that are not possible to deliver to clients with the sole intention of closing a deal. Also, 30 year olds would be introduced as "senior consultants" or any analysts with vaguely similar industry experience to the project at hand as "market experts". Most clients catch on this and few come back, and those who do, come back for their basic research needs that are hard labor, not for the "strategic recommendations" promised by the company. - Little focus on people. Analysts and consultants are hardly seen as people, but more as report producing machines. Hours are long, many times 60+ a week, deadlines are tight and an analyst is usually juggling 4-5 projects at the same time, and one is expected to deliver in timely fashion and with the quality the clients expect. With this said, no bonuses, the lack of medical care, no benefits and perceived no interest on personnel retention/development perpetuates the feeling that upper management cares only about themselves. - High turnover. Even during the recession, personnel turnover averaged 4-6 people a month out of 80 employees, and anyone who has been in the company over 2 years is considered an "old employee" - A place to learn, not to stay. Nobody in the whole region has been in the company for over 5-6 years, including the directors and country managers, all of whom are the legal representatives of the company in different countries, meaning that they won’t leave and none of the new employees stands much chance of rising above manager level - The slogan of the company is "We generate growth" and we preach good practices to other companies, but Frost doesn’t apply any and the company has shown little to no growth in the last two years. There is a disconnection between the recommendations the company makes to other companies and the internal practices for generating more business and better working conditions