ZS Associates reviews

For outside MBA hires, this place is a nightmare. There's very little training. They tell you they want outside hires to bring in new ways of thinking about the role. Unfortunately, they are mostly run by people who grew up within the company and they get frustrated that you don't think exactly like they've been trained to. A high percentage of outside consultant hires get put on probation because they don't think and perform exactly the same way that consultants who were hired as associates and promoted twice do. Those people have received extensive training and been self-selected by the company two additional times.

1. Do not facilitate project changes internally 2. Work life balance is messed up, and everyone is okay with it. It is normal for everyone if you're working till midnight or later 3. Inability of the project stakeholders to finalize realistic timelines, which lead to an increased work load on the lowest level employees - associates 4. The worst salary hike concept I've heard - because someone joined at a lower CTC, they're getting a higher raise. (There's a reason someone joined at a lower CTC I guess and unless they perform better, they shouldn't be getting the higher raise) 5. I've seen multiple cases where managers don't give a damn about the associates' areas of interest and just (over)load them with work that they never wanted to do in the first place