ZS Associates reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(9,812 total reviews)
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Pratap Khedkar

76% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

ZS Associates has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 9,812 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ZS Associates 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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1.0
May 14, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I'll update this if i can think of anything

Cons

The firm won't think about you. Don't get fooled by the management when they say this is for your growth and success. It's all about how they can make more profit by keeping staffing minimum. You will be hired based on your skills and expertise but forget about using those coz you will be staffed randomly on any project requiring any random skill set which you may have never heard of. The leadership will give discount to clients to get the project and then reduce the hours of the team members on paper to make the required profit. Consequence of this - the effort on the project has not reduced, only your hours on paper has reduced. As a result you will get staffed on other projects for the remaining hours and you will end up working 60 70 hours a week. Dont make the mistake of raising this concern to the management coz you will hear a constant echo of "thats how things are done here" and congratulations you have also earned a title of a person who is not flexible. You will have meetings at night with India teams and morning meetings with client. Forget about those personal goals. Just focus on work for the next year or so coz eventually you will quit or become a robot who has no personal life. There are small firms or rather gangs within this 1 big firm and if you cant make yourself a part of any gang then dont think about surviving here. How can you become a part of the gang, agree to their terms and conditions unconditionally so just become a yes man

1.0
Nov 16, 2019

Tier 4 Consulting Firm, You Can Do Better

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Only major upside is your professional development, enabling you to move to a less toxic environment after. You will get a broad exposure to pharma and opportunities in industry while at ZS. Remaining minor pros: -Working in modern offices -Good health-insurance -Working with other less-fortunate bright junior US peers

Cons

ZS is run by rotten dishonest management which treats junior and off-shore employees as replaceable cogs. The business model in place often leads to teams churning out garbage work for their clients. With over 80% of its employees now in India, this is a Tier 4 consulting firm on par with Tata, Wipro, Cognizant and others. Other major cons: -Most from associate through manager level are extremely stressed-out and have no work-life balance -Uncompetitive total compensation package, not overall or for hours worked -Title deflation compared to other consulting firms hurts future job prospects -Slow promotion cycles despite more levels than other consulting firms -Excessively high firm turnover, officially 25% of junior US peers leave annually -Non-US natives often especially mistreated due to their visa situation -ZS newcomers often get projects and clients no one wants -Many are given little autonomy even if they are experienced hires -Management not flexible with personal needs (limited WFH) nor invested in junior staff development -Expect to travel much more to distant clients than promised -Expect to manage significantly less competent individuals remotely on a daily basis and direct them with late night emails -Majority of US peers and effective company culture are Indian -ZS is just not a dynamic firm, resistant to change, and behind on the technical curve Carefully consider other US-based reviews before joining this toxic mess.

2.0
Jul 4, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I joined ZS after completing my MBA from a premier B-school. I joined the Business Operations practice. A few pros of working in ZS are 1) Good Projects 2) Good Exposure to Fortune 500 clients 3) Good Brand Value if you are going for an MBA after ZS

Cons

ZS is definitely not the place to join after completing your MBA. Specially Business Operations profile. The job description is misleading and after reading the JD you might mistake Business Operations as Supply Chain Operations. But let me assure that Business Operations and Supply Chain Operations are poles apart. Do not join as a Consultant right from campus specially in BO (Business Operations). Most of the work will be around project and people management and you will be seldom involved in any analysis which will be done by the Associates All the projects are based out of US. There is an onshore team which does all the client interaction and offshore team based out of Gurgaon and Pune will just do whatever is being told by onshore team. Offshore team has very little understanding as to why client asked for a change since majority of client interactions will be done by offshore Pathetic work-life balance. Although, you don't have to work over the weekend but on weekdays you might have to stay back in office till 10 pm

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