Do not recommend for new grads - Associate Keystone Employee Review

- Have more economics and legal cases than strategy cases. If you are looking for a place where you can gain a lot of transferable skills, get ownership of your work - this isn't the place for you. - Most associates do verbatim note taking and synthesis. You are not part of all the meetings so you play a tangential role to the team unlike other consulting firms - Associates don't do any modeling, data analysis work as keystone hires specialized data scientists for those roles, unlike other economics consulting firms, where you get to work directly with data tools -Your promotion cycle and growth is largely dependent on how strongly your PDL advocates for you and can get lost in a combination of bad PLs -Senior Management is not well-trained and require you to work long hours with no purpose. -Few senior managers have a lot of power & say - need to be in good books or else can have a bad experience with staffing. a politically driven workplace -People are not nice - toxic work environment