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    L.E.K. Consulting Reviews

    Updated 21 April 2019
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    L.E.K. Consulting Global Managing Partner Stuart Jackson
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    • "Work life balance becomes an issue at times" (in 66 reviews)

    • "Long hours, limited project diversity" (in 78 reviews)

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    1. "Manager"

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      Current Employee - Manager in Mumbai
      Current Employee - Manager in Mumbai
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at L.E.K. Consulting full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Great people and global exposure.

      Cons

      Work life balance becomes an issue at times.

    2. "Associate Consultant"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at L.E.K. Consulting full-time

      Pros

      Great people, intellectually stimulating, exciting place to be

      Cons

      Work life balance and hours.

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    3. "Great people, challenging work"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at L.E.K. Consulting full-time

      Pros

      L.E.K. Consulting requires you to travel much less than other strategy houses. This allows you to build strong bonds with colleagues while working on challenging problems.

      Cons

      The hours can be long which is expected. the breadth of work may also be limited in comparison to MBB.

      Advice to Management

      Acquiring key talent will be a key challenge for L.E.K. as they pursue their aspirations for growth. Also, technology and modernisation is key!

    4. "Management - listen to your staff"

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      Current Employee - Associate in Boston, MA (US)
      Current Employee - Associate in Boston, MA (US)
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at L.E.K. Consulting full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Great people - especially at the associate level

      Low-travel model is great, even though it often results in longer hours compared to other consulting firms

      Cons

      Slower to change and adapt than other firms - archaic staffing methods, fewer employee benefits, etc.

      Pay is beginning to slip compared to it's competitors and management doesn't seem to mind

      Longer hours in general - sometimes a result of poor case management, other times cases are poorly scoped

      Management's apathy to staff complaints has taken a serious toll on morale

      Overall, L.E.K. is growing very quickly, but with a lot of growing pains. Address the issues quickly in order to capitalize on the growth.

      Advice to Management

      Management - PLEASE listen to your staff and take a note from these reviews - they aren't just disgruntled former employees. They're people who are invested in the success of the firm and often bring you very valid complaints and issues. We're feeling ignored and undervalued - you're going to continue to lose great people until you make us feel like you care about us as much as your bottom line.

    5. Helpful (3)

      "Significant changes needed to break downward trend"

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      Former Employee - Associate
      Former Employee - Associate
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at L.E.K. Consulting full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      -intelligent pre-mba associates / office culture varies across offices

      -opportunity exists to be on strategy projects with notable clients, albeit extremely rare

      -exposure to clients, including investment professionals at leading PE firms

      Cons

      -retention has become a serious issue in the past few years, strong performers are almost always overworked and are expected to work miracles on poorly scoped cases

      -the firms follows a mantra of cheaper and faster relative to competing firms, which has significant impact on junior staff (associates and consultants), who more often than not are not properly trained to handle the workload or timeline

      -the staffing model is simply unsustainable and lacks grounding in reality: there is little to no buffer period between cases, scenarios where staff is staffed back-to-back on tough due diligence for more than 6 month stretches in increasingly common

      -brain drain of staff with key technical skills (financial, data analysis, etc.) at the firm with no suitable pipeline of replacements. It often becomes a sink-or-swim situation where capable staff will be forced to either self-learn to get by or the alternative simply to get canned with a terrible review that is completely out of their control

      Advice to Management

      LEK's current business model may be great at driving near term (think 1 to 2 year growth), which at this point is largely driven by the sheer number of due diligence in PE that no other consulting firms want to pick up; the firm is woefully inadequate in planning for long term success

      -concentrate on retention: your staff is your most valuable asset; hiring larger quantities of increasingly incompetent replacements will do little to improve the quality of client deliverables

      -invest to developing capabilities for the 21st century: build out staff with data scientist, statistics qualifications (or stop selling cases that staff have no qualification to do)

      -please have consulting staff / or bare minimum have former consulting staff be part of the allocations process to give staff breathing room on cases or voice pushback against MDs' poor scope

    6. "Analyst"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at L.E.K. Consulting full-time

      Pros

      High level of exposure to top management

      Cons

      Worklife balance was very difficult

    7. "Good training"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Boston, MA (US)
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Boston, MA (US)

      I worked at L.E.K. Consulting full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Great training to kick start a career

      Cons

      Hierarchy, long hours, ... ...

    8. "Worst consulting firm with terrible culture"

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      Former Employee - Consultant
      Former Employee - Consultant
      Doesn't Recommend

      I worked at L.E.K. Consulting full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Management responsibilities right out of business school. Ton of exposure to due diligence work (because that's basically all you will do)

      Cons

      People manage right away without proper management training which means while people that stay / get promoted might be smart they are not good managers. Work is brutal, they tell you it's a strategy consulting firm but it's actually a due diligence sweat shop. You don't travel but you also never get to go home. Terrible culture that is controlled by HR.

      Advice to Management

      Stop being focused on just profit and actually start caring about people. Attrition levels are extremely high which shows that people don't want to stay, but that management also doesn't care about people staying.

    9. "Good place to work"

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      Current Employee - Consultant in London, England (UK)
      Current Employee - Consultant in London, England (UK)
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at L.E.K. Consulting full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Very interesting cases
      Good salary
      Smart people

      Cons

      Demanding work atmosphere
      Not very communicative culture

    10. Helpful (4)

      "Dont take this coop,"

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      Former Employee - Case Team Assistant in Boston, MA (US)
      Former Employee - Case Team Assistant in Boston, MA (US)
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at L.E.K. Consulting part-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Cool people, good offices, good money

      Cons

      repetitive
      they wont hire you
      little respect
      cases don't do much
      terrible work life balance