ZS Associates reviews

1. In an effort to grow faster new managers/consultants are hired from the industry but often they bring their own baggage (kissing up and crapping down) from previous jobs. Even hiring one wrong fit at senior level screws many junior team members who may actually have stayed at ZS 2. Billing rates are insanely high compared to normal IT companies. People get over this by working 80 hrs but billing only 40hrs. 3. Partners have become lazy and usually keep high performing managers under them who work like slaves in hopes of becoming partner. Bar for making partner keeps increasing every year. Managers are too hard on teams since they think they put through this and its normal 4. I miss the ZS where transparency was encouraged . It has now become a political place

-work life balance is not there, managers sometimes have to meet US teams in the morning also as well as late evenings. teams work till late evenings every day starting their day at 10-11. - toxic leadership - no support, home grown people have reached leadership levels who dont know how to manage people, lack skills and lead by fear. either you lick their boots or you are not going to succeed. - manager and above have a constant contest of business development and taking credits of each other's work and blame game when there are issues. company seriously needs to train folks at senior levels as folks at junior levels are only looking forward to quit everyday seeing such non-fun, life-less working environment.