Korn Ferry reviews

Where to begin??? As the headline of this review states, "Corporate Monster", the umbrella covering the ridiculous and untransparent practices. Redundant meetings with leaders who only care about themselves, not the employees, i.e. hold meetings to talk about their upbringing, how they got where they are, etc., like anyone asked. Go write an autobiography, no one cares and it's not a motivating tool when underlying insults based on class status are thrown in the mix of relentless egotistic banter. The KPIs are absurd and management is worse, nothing is EVER good enough. The culture megaphone is, buy up every small consulting company in the world, one at a time. Make everyone from those small consulting companies feel "welcome" with false promises of hope by not telling them what's actually going on (lack of transparency). Constant fear of job status regardless of job performance (insert Xanax prescription). Again, Corporate Monster.

This is a toxic place to work. I’ve seen "entrepreneurial" in a lot of reviews, and you need to know what that means: there's no centralized strategy, everyone is fighting for resources, and the company is a collection of partner fiefdoms that have competing agendas. The only people who are successful have strong personal networks of people that can sign contracts. What this means: you need to be a well-connected, wealthy, and have sharp elbows. Also, while they don't care about where you work, they do expect that you are "on" at all times including weekend, vacations, weddings, and funerals. A note for LGBTQ+ talent: run. The LGBTQ+ affinity group only seems to exist to fill out the HRC application. The firm doesn’t communicate support for LGBTQ+ issues (except one token post during pride month), the firm doesn’t have any out leaders, doesn’t promote or develop LGBTQ+ employees, nor do they include LGBTQ+ in their diversity investment or data strategies. In fact, I’ve been told by one of the leaders of Korn Ferry’s “Power of all” that LGBTQ+ talent is not part of the diversity conversation at this time, so the firm doesn’t plan to invest.