Korn Ferry reviews

3.3

56% would recommend to a friend

(3,889 total reviews)
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Gary D. Burnison

57% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Korn Ferry has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 3,889 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Korn Ferry employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Administración y consultoría industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Feb 6, 2014

A stable and corporate environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Good client base interesting work

Cons

Corporate formal structure, hierarchical, career progression

2.0
Feb 6, 2014

Great Company... in theory.

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

• Excellent reputation as a top-flight recruiting firm. • Very nimble organization that can change direction on a dime… and usually does. • Working virtually allows for flexibility and accommodation. • When you have access to senior leaders, you will find a WEALTH of knowledge and competence.

Cons

• Inconsistency in project implementation. (to their credit, they have hired a team that is now overseeing implementation and that seems to be going well) • Frenetic management with very little oversight; underperformers can coast and get by leaving all the hard work to top-performers. • ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY NO EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT! You will walk in with what you know and stay at that level if you do not take the initiative to learn on your own. • This company does not encourage it’s employees to be better at their jobs. • Bonuses are promised in your offer, but never paid. • You will NEVER be provided a merit increase no matter what your performance level is, so why bother is most people’s attitude.

3.0
Jan 31, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good place to learn to recruit for different jobs and industries. - Opportunity to learn to work for managers who may not know enough about recruiting to provide competent management of projects/ searches/ RPOs and/or people. - Opportunity to work with virtual teams. - Opportunity to learn to work in an ever changing environment. - Global exposure via affiliation to Korn/Ferry. - Definitely the place to work to build tolerance for instability.

Cons

- HR creates and tries to implement staff development tools that could be effective if they were taken seriously and used company-wide. - HR too often is not involved in employment decisions. - As with many companies, incompetent employees can work at Futurestep ad infinitum if they have friends in high places. - Sells solutions and advertises concepts that are not applied in-house. - Sales team brings in business that is approved by management regardless of the company's capacity to deliver. - Workforce planning and change management is done on the fly. - Inadequate tools that compete with each other instead of complementing each other. - Sourcers have insufficient and/or inadequate tools. - Very high turnover. - Departments compete against each other. - Employees are obviously dispensable.

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