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Low Utilization, Misleading Pay Structure - Operations Consultant Chartwell Consulting Employee Review

2.0
2 Feb 2025
Recommend
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Pros

If you are staffed, lots of experience in industry, on the shop floor. Some of the most capable, intelligent people I have ever met.

Cons

There are not enough projects, Have not been for a year and a half. So, odds are you will find yourself not staffed, which cuts your pay significantly. But the problematic part is that you can be staffed, on a project, and still not receive your On Site Bonus (OSB). This is nearly a quarter of pay, and at higher grades becomes an even higher portion of your compensation. Read your offer letter very carefully. You get a lower salary than industry average, but get a percentage of your client fees (OSB). In principal, this sounds fine. But, the company can choose to staff you on a project, and not bill the client for your work. They do this to sell projects at a discount, to try to staff people. Your percentage of your fees, therefore, is multiplied by zero, since there were no fees. You have no control over staffing, but they will choose to do this to individual employees, and put the business risk of discounting the project on your personal pay.

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5.0
12 Nov 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great colleagues. Really enjoy the work that we do. A great way to leverage my engineering degree into real-world benefit very quickly.

Cons

High amount of travel, Mon-Thurs most weeks of the year. Other firms travel Mon-Fri so it could be worse, but don't take this job if you aren't prepared to do that

1.0
10 Nov 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Excessive travel, if that’s a goal for you.

Cons

The company is truly out of touch. They subject experienced engineers to a graduate level application process, losing the most valuable talent in the industry. This creates a culture of inexperienced, post-graduate engineers with excessive re-work and competitive dynamics. If they conducted a normal application process, they would acquire those that have been in the industry with a proven track record of solving complex manufacturing problems. There is extreme and unsafe pressure with all work due to their failure in proper hiring. There is a slave-like culture that starts from the application process. They look to verify how much you can handle under extreme pressure, which is not a measure of any true engineer skills, in any way. As an engineer with experience from other companies, I confidently condemn this company as out of touch and unsafe for true engineers. If you want to be treated poorly and overworked with management grasping to unrealistic timelines and projects, work here. For true engineers that value thoughtful approach and complex problem solving with actual support, look elsewhere.

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