Control Risks reviews about "diversity"

Senior management is smug, blinkered, and also relatively young and showing no signs of moving on. White, male and military dominated perspective that is essential that you share or you will not succeed. Very few senior women and little cultural diversity. Lack of strategic thinking.

Underpaid and over-priced when compared to market. Don't value staff, everyone is a number; unless you are a white British male and ex-UK military; preferably ex-Green Jackets or Paras to get promoted to management Don't value employees professional memberships or certifications. Management not always based on capabilities, more of which regiment you went to. Partnership model (vs. employee owned) has created silos and reduced collaborative approach

Very difficult progression for female employees or people of colour.

As a business it sells a brand that clients can trust when they most need support - CR claims they will give you experienced consultants, some of the best on the market. In real life that's far from true and as a manager I had to deliver on that brand promise, while extracting maximum leverage from people with zero experience, because we did not want to pay for the real deal. We tried so hard but always had a weird feeling that it was more about putting on a show than actually giving clients access to real experts. It worked out most of the time, but if clients really knew what happens in the "kitchen", many would walk away or ask to pay half the price. On a similar note the company's use of the word "expert" is abusive. They take someone with superficial knowledge and good presentation skills and here you go he is a "Control Risks expert" on something. The company maybe has 100 real experts globally. Out of 2,000 employees. You won't see them often because most of them want to leave anyways. The company has a really strong culture and it prides itself of being unique, doing things right, honest, etc...Actually that is only the case when it serves senior management. I've seen some very unethical career and pay management decisions that were not only condoned but supported by the top brass. It's generally around the idea of "give them the absolute least possible we can, they'll leave, we will find new bodies to suck their life out. " So if you ever want to be failry rewarded for your work and committement: Walk Away! Control Risks will give you experience but never a fair deal. Unless you are a white british ex military or, more recently part of the happy few high power female group crushing every body else in the name of "diversity" (it's not).

Busy! Five words five words

All the positives come with some drawbacks - Culture of punching the clock and just checking boxes to meet minimum quality and client demands - Pervasive lack of top level accountability and ownership with regards to performance and quality, as long as there is a fit with the company culture. Upper management class are often shuffled around the organisation with no regard as to geographical or practice area expertise, overly heavy focus ensuring “safe pairs of hands” remain in charge, at the expense of change and innovation - Career development and potential based too heavily on tenure length (although those who are British still retain the greatest advantage). Ossified hierarchies, lack of embrace of new technology, new ideas and modern processes. - The impressive diversity is unfortunately limited to lower levels of the organization. A quasi-colonial mindset by management continues to pervade, despite cosmetic efforts

Really poor salaries outside of partnership Some strange culture and colleagues, including sexism, racism Lack of diversity Failed to adapt to the modern world of technology and online services Inability to work across offices, or across service lines Ran by old white guys who don't understand that the world has changed Political risk is a joke. Totally missed the Trump phenomenon, making grand claims that it was literally impossible for him to be elected. They are now claiming to be Trump experts.

Because the company offers amazing work and people, it gets away with mediocre financial and career rewards. Promotions and salaries are non transparent. Can pay 70-80%of market rate (Lomdon) for consulting and manager roles if promoted internally (vs external hires). New partnership structure still in early days - middle mngt squeezed til they drop to pay for the senior coverage. Many partners bring in zero money - its all down to low paid consultants to keep the lights on.