Job Title: Director
Location: Burlington, MA
Submitted on: 04-Mar-03
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Answerthink is a consulting firm run by CPAs who fancy themselves
industry visionaries. The founders' bold decision to leave KPMG in the
late 1990s has deteriorated into an organization with crushingly poor
morale and hollow marketing propaganda. At every level of the firm,
there is open disdain for the executive leadership, who for their part
have earned it through their callous treatment of employees and their
inability to deliver on their rhetoric.
Dress code is actually a notch or two below what you expect from a
professional organization, a direct reflection on the lack of pride
most employees take to work with them every day.
Answerthink does not have a diversity issue however. The
advertisements showing professional men and women of all backgrounds
and ages lack credibility only in that the people photographed are
sharply dressed and appear eager to work. Shabbier, lazier, versions of
these folks do actually work at the firm.
Advancement is nearly non-existant, but only because it would raise the
fixed costs of the payroll. Answerthink is managed with an eye to
socking away cash, any investment that might have a negative effect on
the cash hoarde will be deferred - including promotions, raises and
bonuses.
Hours aren't too bad, there's not enough work! But if you are staffed -
forget any broad-based sympathy or recognition of the fact that you're
working all of your waking hours.
Answerthink's assigning people crappy hand-me down technology, they've
probably got twice as many PCs as people now. Given management's
expectation that all interactions with the company can be electronic -
using the internal systems is tedious.
Overall - a firm in an advanced state of decline, selling property to
pay the taxes on it...
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