Korn Ferry reviews

3.3

56% would recommend to a friend

(3,889 total reviews)
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Gary D. Burnison

56% 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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4K reviews
1.0
Dec 15, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

PTO benefits (but nothing else)

Cons

Shark culture with no collaboration or teamwork. Company doesn't provide merit increases. Bonus pool is limited because most of it goes to Partners on guarantees that are often under-performing.

2.0
Nov 16, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some great team members and opportunity to work with amazing clients

Cons

KF is running so lean that many employees are routinely logging 12 hour days and working weekends with no end in sight. They cut salaries in April due to the pandemic and said they'd be restored in September and then extended to at least January, 2021. They now just added a time tracking system whereby you need to account for all your hours - more work to an already insane schedule. Many people have not used their 2020 PTO because they are working too much and feel like they will be laid off yet, the company keeps sending out emails reminding people to take their PTO, take care of themselves...oh and just as a reminder, PTO does not roll over to 2021. They are completely blind to what employees current reality is.

1.0
Jul 20, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Happy hour office drinks once a month.

Cons

I left a really stable and well-paid job to join this company and was let go within 2 months due to Covid. I understand that there are financial implications of Covid but knowing that someone has left a job to join you and letting them go straight away is pretty abhorrent. I don't normally like leaving bad reviews but I feel I need to warn people of how awful this place truly is. Within two weeks of working here, I realised i'd made a terrible mistake and don't want anybody else to be in that position. My handover was non-existant. I was basically left to guess how the company worked and dragged over the hot coals if I got it wrong. Any time I asked my manager a question, I was made to feel an idiot who was wasting his time. I've worked in the industry for ten years and consider myself a confident person but i've never felt so low as working under this guy.

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