Navigant Reviews

While I do not know what the rest of Navigant is like, my year-long experience on the largest managed services project has led me to believe that this workplace is incredibly racist. For starters, the project is overwhelmingly white yet employees of color/employees of ethnic minorities are fired and quit at a disproportionate rate. To date, 5 out of the 5 employees fired are persons of color or from minority origins. Of the 16 employees that has left the firm, 9 come from minority ethnic origins. Moreover, project management created a "low-performance team." With the except of two individuals, everyone that has been on the team in the past or is current on the team is an employee of color/ethnic minority. Overshadowing the above statistic is the fact that when employees of color leave, they often enter more prestigious companies or more advanced roles. Meanwhile, white employees on the project with worse performance are given endless opportunities and positive attention from management to motivate growth and remediation. Egregious instances of racism occur on a frequent basis. Certain project managers constantly mix up employees of similar ethnic origins/language capabilities with each other. It is absolutely useless to escalate to senior managers because they are extremely close to the offenders and any reasonable person would see that their integrity is compromised. The only instance of HR report, that I know of, ended with the HR rep patronizing the reporter and laughing at her in her face. If you are not a white man from Long Island, avoid this place!

1. Compensation is reflective of the lower billable hour targets. It's consulting, so the pay is still good relative to other jobs, but probably lower than peer firms, especially after bonus. Makes barriers to exit relatively low. 2. Nothing formalized for professional development. Employees receive an evaluator (or whatever the position has since been renamed) to whom they may have no working exposure over the course of a review period. No formal or prescribed one-on-one cadence. All but the best self starters run the risk of receiving insufficient guidance when starting out. Work was in process to improve this when I left, but it's still a deficiency. Also probably a step below MBB, Deloitte, etc. in terms of training rigor. If you want to be better at excel than your buddy at BAML, look elsewhere. 3. Quality of life can vary group to group, practice to practice. Tough to tell before you start what type of group you'll find yourself in, but not every group adheres to the corporate billable hour targets or understands interests in your life beyond work. 4. The healthcare practice was reorganized on a monthly basis. This was less a con than it was just plain annoying. 5. Other cons that are present in other consulting firms but no less true at Navigant, including ebbs and flows to workload, including some weeks with long hours in crunch time; turnover of your favorite people (which, when embraced, can mean new favorite people); managers you don't like to work for (though not everybody)