Keyrus Reviews

As the COVID-19 pandemic hit the economy, Keyrus has become entirely a mess. They haven't been able to sustain clients and work while they are increasingly furloughing and laying off employees. The diversity is abysmal. In the entire of the U.S. workforce, there is a minuscule amount of people of color. It is entirely white people and the management has no diversity what so ever. Onboarding is a joke, you're given an old, most likely broken computer and have to set it up all by yourself. The training opportunities match that, onboarding training is a poorly written assignment that most senior members can not even figure out how to complete themselves. Frankly, Keyrus is good at making themselves look amazing on paper, but not in reality.

I worked here for several years. At one point the EPM -Americas division was a small tight-knit group that wanted to do the best work of any of the firms in the space, it has since turned into a machine driven by greed and loyalty to the CEO. He has total control of everyone in leadership on down, through financial strings within his control. It’s like that movie Whiplash, where has a different favorite person every quarter and treats others like they aren’t humans, and if you were on the “outs” he would be dismissive of you, gossip about you, and actively exclude you from discussions important to your job on the team, setting you up for failure. He was emotionally abusive to three employees (just to my knowledge) who were going through periods of personal struggles ranging from family issues to personal mental health and depression. And when you’re on the outs, you get no feedback, you’re just systematically isolated, and gaslit. He has the means to control how others behave toward you, because again, he controls everyone’s position and comp in a way I’ve never seen before. The culture and incentives are designed to motivate you to have no work/life balance, and punish you if you prioritize balance. For the uninitiated, whenever any professional services firm (not talking specifically about this one) is acquired, equity members are not paid much at point of acquisition, rather, they are generally paid a multiple of future income over many years. So, post-acquisition, you’re working your team HARD to maximize your earn out. 12 hour days. Constant pressure to bill more hours. Combined with the above generic information, look up the publicly available information related to Keyrus’s acquisitions and how they grow and you’ll get a sense of why the culture is the way that it is. To me, this explains so much about why there has been a mass exodus of team members over the past couple years. Look at their attrition rate. It speaks for itself. Also, as others have said in Glassdoor reviews, the company CAN and WILL spy on you. They log everything you do in the software you implement. They also monitor your email, have access to your email credentials, and they can and will use those email credentials to access every piece of software you have on your computer to monitor your activity and communications. RUN don’t walk to the exit.