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4.8

97% would recommend to a friend

(34 total reviews)

97% positive business outlook

Pointe Advisory has an employee rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars, based on 34 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Pointe Advisory employee rating is 29% above average for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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34 reviews
2.0
10 Oct 2023

Hidden Flaws Hidden Toxicity

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

(Reference cons cuz the pros are not worth it). They have an annual trip to somewhere in the Caribbean. The one I went on was pretty luxe, and I heard that the year prior was even nicer. Also, the resort was all inclusive which was cool.

Cons

Starting out at Pointe, it seemed like a special place to work. Individuals there really pride themselves on their boutique culture, and the company has a great sales pitch at first. However, it's the most successful gaslighting of all time, and people really drink the cool aid. They'll tell you there's no turnover, but in my years at other firms, I've never seen as much as there was at Pointe. They'll tell you they care about your professional development, but really they just dangle this carrot of promotion and raises while they give you as much work as possible until they've burned you out. They'll tell you they have a great culture to offset work life balance issues, but there's so much general ignorance and insensitivity across the board (racial, sexual, etc.). And the work life balance issues are bad. Pointe practices and even jokes about pretty significant labor exploitation for employees with most working until 8 or 9 PM most nights. Execs at the firm will flippantly tell you that you can't make more money elsewhere and joke about enjoying the generally low work life balance because it means they're seeing more money. Since departing, I've reconnected with at least 3 other former employees who had similar exit interviews as mine, where Karl or Stuart have ridiculed our decisions to leave and dismissed the fact that we got higher offers elsewhere by insisting the growth potential is worse. I saw a meaningful bump in salary, but I would take less money to work somewhere else. None of the employees will say this to the new guy, but I don't know more than maybe 4 people at Pointe who truly stand by the culture outside of senior leadership, and I'd have serious concerns about the firm's longevity if I still worked there. Lastly, the backstabbing and gossip is severe. On multiple occasions, I had information that I thought was shared in confidence or interactions that I thought would stay between my manager and me thrown in my face by other leaders. It creates this culture of hypervigilance and compounds the already high stress of the remainder of the job. As much as I am appreciative for any role that I am offered, I'd encourage you not to apply for one with Pointe. For most, I think it would be detrimental to one's mental health and an extremely toxic experience.

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Pointe Advisory Response
2y
First, thank you for your contributions during your time with Pointe. We wish you well in your next role. We appreciate your feedback and would like to provide a response to your review. Let us start with the pros. We are glad you enjoyed the company trip we took together. We have been doing the trip for years because of the authentic bonds and memories it facilitates for all – employees and their significant others. It takes significant planning effort and financial investment to make it happen but has always been worth it. We think there are other pros about working at Pointe that were not mentioned, but we will allow other reviews to highlight those. As for your list of cons, we think Pointe IS a special place to work. We have had several people return to the company after prior departures, which speaks for itself. Pointe is an environment that requires significant effort and hours. It is not a clock-in, clock-out, 9 to 5-type job, and that does not work for everyone. We acknowledge and accept that. Our clients are massive organizations who operate globally. It is challenging to maintain the right scale to match ever-increasing client demand. We have traditionally operated lean but have significantly increased our staff count in recent years, including support staff. Demand for our services has continued to outpace; we are fortunate to have such a challenge. Several large consulting firms over-hired in recent years, resulting in broad layoffs; we have never had to do that. There are times when we work late or on a weekend; that is not unique to Pointe, and it is in the service of our clients. In return, we offer flexibility on start times, a lenient PTO policy, partial work from home, bi-annual, financial performance incentives, and, as you noted, an expense-paid trip to a tropical location on a 12-to-18-month interval. Our compensation plan has meaningful, progressive, and attainable performance bonus opportunities in addition to salary. We will not dispute that some companies may offer a higher salary. However, we measure total compensation, salary + bonus + benefits, as a better comparison. We also offer salary increases for responsibility growth and at each level of promotion. It is difficult to address comments on backstabbing, gossip, or claims of “general ignorance and insensitivity” without knowing specifics. It is unfortunate if that was truly your experience. We do not perceive those characteristics to be common, nor central to Pointe culture. We would have preferred your experience at Pointe to be as positive and rewarding as it is for current employees; and was for other past employees. We appreciate the contributions you made while at Pointe and we wish you well in your future endeavors.
1.0
5 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The facade was very team oriented. Free coffee, filtered water, ping pong table. Hybrid work schedule, but really only wanted people in the office because it was desolate.

Cons

The facade of “great people” was just that, a facade. Ultimately upper management was unorganized and did not understand work/life balance, even though they had prided themselves on it as being a “perk”. They made poor business decisions with hiring people without really thinking thoroughly. The CEO was overworking staff members, and forcing people out of the company by burning them out. The CEO’s expectations of working long hours trickled down to other senior management members and those expectations consequentially made the place unbearable to work for. They prided themselves as a boutique consulting agency, but did not value differing opinions. It was the high way or no way at this place. Not open to new ideas of changing structural inefficiencies. I could go on…

5.0
27 Feb 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You'll meet the most amazing people at Pointe Advisory. People in this company are truly fun to work with and they genuinely care about you and invest heavily in both your personal and professional development. Your learning curve at Pointe will be steep, and you will be able to pick up many tools, techniques, and pieces of knowlege rapidly. Pointe has the best culture you can imagine for a firm: many happy hours, galas, annual trips, cultural events, team building games, and so on... And most importantly, the job is well paid with great compensationa and bonus structure!

Cons

Since Pointe is striving to grow, the job could sometimes be demanding and involve second-shift work. However, that will definitely not be the norm. The company's leadership team is actively working on protecting people's work life balance by constantly improving protocols as well as developing more effective practices.

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Pointe Advisory Response
2y
Thank you so much for the positive and honest review. We appreciate the contributions you made to the culture and the work during your time with us.
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