Korn Ferry reviews

The company has gone through at least four RIFs in the last two years, that I'm aware of. It could be more. They hire people with the intention of using their services for a finite amount of time, then get rid of them once they've gotten what they needed. The lay off process was cold and heartless, with my manager notifying me over Zoom by reading a script. HR was on the call as well, but utterly useless and unwilling to help. Trying to get her to respond to my questions via email and chat was like pulling teeth. To add insult to injury, the company is constantly posting tone-deaf "thought leadership" articles about layoffs where they try to position themselves as a company that would never resort to such measures, which is a gross misrepresentation and highly insulting to the thousands of people they've laid off in recent years. When a company goes through this many rounds of layoffs in such a short period of time, it's not a people problem. It's a business problem. Leadership has no idea what they're doing and none of them are being held accountable for poor revenue performance. Instead, the lower-level workers are paying the price, while the CEO continues to enjoy a massive bonus every year. He needs to go and so does his leadership team.

• Expensive benefits. Health insurance cost more than $1100 a month, and the 401(k) is a joke -- how can a $2B company offer a discretionary match? I joined KF through an acquisition and the cost of benefits resulted in me taking a 25% hit to my take-home pay. • Disappointing culture, where success is predicated on personal closeness to Gary Burnison or how much you publicly profess your love for Korn Ferry. I've never worked anywhere so self-congratulatory. • Pleads poverty at every turn when it comes to resources, raises, or promotions •Awful onboarding and training—you get a PDF and links to one-size-fits-all videos. They introduced a mentorship program, but mentors were assigned based on tenure at KF, not actual seniority or career levels, so someone at a more senior level could (and often did) get matched with less experienced staff. • Despite public declarations otherwise, people do not matter here. All that matters is shareholders. This is evident from how they balanced the COVID-19 challenges on the backs of staff (mass layoffs and across-the-board double-digit salary cuts). More care was put into communicating the death of a board member than the layoffs and cutbacks.