A warm home to build your consulting career - Principal Consultant Q5 Employee Review

5.0
22 Mar 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Q5 is defined by its culture - which is inclusive, supportive and empowering. This culture has enabled me to grow my career in ways I never imagined - not just in the raw elements of building a consulting career - in delivery of projects, but also through supporting BD, offering development and being allowed to contribute to other areas - like our pro bono consulting offer - ‘Pop Up’. As a result I am a far more rounded consultant than I think I would be had I stayed in the Big 4.

Cons

The market recently has been very tough for the whole consulting sector - Q5 has done a good job at maintaining its size and shape during this period - but as we gear for growth again, it’s important we organise ourselves so that we are best able to sustain great opportunities for all of our people and evolve how we serve our clients. I’m confident the firm will do this and continue to be a warm place to build successful consulting careers

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5.0
10 Feb 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great strategic minds, great vision, cutting edge of organizational health and they truly care about their employees.

Cons

None specifically for Q5. Cons of the consulting industry as a whole...it can be stressful to be in a client service industry. Your job satisfaction often is linked to the client's culture for your day-to-day work. I feel that Q5 really stays on top of this to ensure their consultants truly enjoy their projects.

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4.0
16 May 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It's a good working environment that mostly gets things right when it comes to work life balance and not having to travel too much. It is an inclusive company where everyone's opinion can be aired and everyone works together to improve the company. Junior consultants will get great exposure to senior clients in ways that people wouldn't experience at other organizations until they were older.

Cons

As a growing company, Q5 is still finding its feet in some areas. This means that some internal solutions can be makeshift but there is a genuine effort to try and address these and as the company continues to grow these should be ironed out.

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