Job Title: Senior Analyst
Location: Washington, DC
Submitted on: 24-Jun-03
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The culture is very academic, and turnover is extremely high, especially
in the research associate and marketing associate positions. Those few
who do find their own niches do become managers and rise rather quickly,
perhaps reasonably making $60,000 after three years and maybe $85K after
five years. Most people don't last that long though. One reason is
that because of the youth of the company, there are a lot of bad and
very inexperienced managers. Some are good, though. Diversity is huge
at the company (CEB is a "best practice company") and an URM background
will certainly help one rise; though one of the company's core values is
trumpeted as "pure meritocracy", "diversity" is part of each
individual's performance review. Somehow URM's always score higher on
this part of the review, counted for 15% of the total score.
There is a snobbery to CEB culture, probably attributable to the calibre
of entry-level workers brought in (Ivy League, etc backgrounds are very
common here). At the higher levels, there is much importance on the
NAME of your MBA if you want to go far, and if you have worked at
McKinsey you are a golden child, as that is where our CEO came from.
Not a firmwide meeting goes by without reverence being paid to McKinsey
and all our best people who came from there.
The hours are generally 8:30-5:30, although if you want to get promoted
reasonably quickly, add 2 hours to each day and probably weekends as well
(no overtime, no billable hours). Dress is casual, dressing for your
day, which only rarely includes client contact in most positions.
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