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Elena Bajic
2006
4.1
Recommend to a friend
85%
Say this is a great place to work
82%
Proud to have on resume
95%
Employee - Principal/VP/Director
International Multicultural Multiethnic
Employee - Associate/Consultant
smart leadership
Employee - Associate/Consultant
competitive
Employee - Associate/Consultant
diverse
Employee - Associate/Consultant
not where it needs to be
Employee - Manager
Travel is very limited compared to other firms (i.e., most projects are not conducted on-site at clients). Great company culture and atmosphere.
Employee - Manager
Domain experts. Clear communicators. Solid supporters of the culture. Structured work.
Employee - Manager
Domain experts in pricing.
Employee - Senior Associate/Consultant
Simon-Kucher can teach you a lot about pricing and marketing strategy. They really know the specifics very well. It can be a fantastic springboard into other industries. That said, the culture and work-life balance have degraded significantly over the past years, and compensation remains below average.
Employee - Senior Associate/Consultant
Competent yet unfocused and isolated (very much an 'ivory tower' approach)
Employee - Senior Associate/Consultant
Compensation at Simon-Kucher is well below average. In the US, no cost of living adjustment is made, and salaries for the SF and NYC offices, in the two most expensive cities in the country, are pegged to Boston, where the US headquarters is. This is compounded by the fact that Simon-Kucher salaries in general are far below industry average. Bonus is also meager, and employee perks are minimal at best.
Employee - Senior Associate/Consultant
Frankly, Simon-Kucher offered no tangible perks to the employees. Telecommuting was frowned upon, flexible hours were only flexible in that they expected more hours as opposed to less, additional leave could be granted but not without fighting... Company cars were only available to Manager and above, and even then, the deal was not particularly attractive.
Employee - Senior Associate/Consultant
It's difficult to describe now. The culture was one of camaraderie and collaboration ...we weren't the biggest fish, but we were damn good at what we did. That went along with the lower salaries and somewhat less professional aspects of Simon-Kucher. Fine. In recent years, they've been driving to make the company more of a 'major player', however, company culture has suffered greatly as a result. Where they push more and more from employees (thanks to a much tougher stance on the bottom line), they reward significantly less. The expectation is that we would work like those in the big consulting groups, but our compensation remained far below. Additionally, placement opportunities for moving outside of Simon-Kucher were non-existent, and talk of leaving the company was often received with great criticism, if not with veiled threats. What stands out to me about the culture is how much it's disintegrated in the past ~2 years. It's really a shell of what it used to be, and that's too bad.
Employee - Senior Associate/Consultant
Very strong in pricing and marketing strategy, but relegated to that niche in many ways.
Employee - Senior Associate/Consultant
No work life balance Focused on profits more than quality