Quadrant Strategies Reviews

Where do I begin... This company is a shell of its former self. Managing Partners call all the shots, and they act like robber barons. They hoard profits and set unreasonable targets to pad their wallets, while making those in their fiefdom do more and more for them. They don't come into the office while proclaiming that you must. They say "no" to 50% of the ideas which come to them - 90% of the ideas which cost them money. They kick the can down the road on engagement surveys. They do not give regular updates on the health of the business. They are unavailable and inaccessible. They are models of how to not run a company in any sense except for ruthless expansion at the cost of human capital. There is no performance-based bonus (individual performance or company performance) and bonuses are 5%(!) of salary. So there's no real "thank you" for the hard work you'll inevitably be doing. To that end, benefits suck: it costs me more than before for worse coverage than before (I didn't think that was possible). They also quietly removed meager stipends which made small tangible impact on the bottom line of the company but makes an impact to underpaid personnel. Did I mention cost-of-living increases aren't assessed every year? If you don't get promoted in a year (and fewer people are), expect an effective pay cut at review season. I've seen one pay adjustment in my time here. Promotion paths are up to managers who are stressed and disconnected from the everyday balance of work. Expectations are unreasonable and your work is micromanaged. You do not have the time to teach or learn: everyone is in "get stuff done" mode all of the time. YMMV, to be fair, but this is an increasingly common experience. Also... If you want to get into a leadership position, good luck: external hiring has taken the place of promoting from within (the old model). There is no real top-down culture to speak of: most culture comes from other people commiserating over their work whenever they have a spare moment. It's very telling that the "values" presentation shared internally centered around giving clients good service (read: answer all emails in 15 min and destroy your personal life bending over backwards), being smart, and being collegial (read: don't criticize us, or you won't be seen as collegial): there's a yawning chasm in that deck where "treating its people well" or "rewarding good work" should be. I often gut-check my experience against those at other consulting and research firms, and whether it's being aghast at what my boss has said to me, jaws dropping at the penny-pinching, or being shocked at our ridiculously compressed project timelines, they feel for me. Shame. If I sound disgruntled, I am. I loved this company and what it appeared to stand for when I joined, and gave it every reason to love me back: it absolutely has not.

I should have realized that this company was blazing red flags all around but was blinded. The company higher ups and your VPs have no sense of respect for your time as well as your life outside of the job. There will be days and nights where your VP will message or email you passive aggressively asking you to come back online to finish a project because they want to send it early even though we may be ahead of schedule. Your higher ups will bend their back for their clients which means that you as an associate, senior associate, or a consultant will have to work more than extra because at Quadrant they like to agree to have delusional timelines and project deliverables. If you think you are going to get amazing benefits by working at this firm, it is your time to turn around and look for other opportunities. Recently, the firm laid-off some percentage of the workforce due to the firm's fault and miscalculations. There were no prior warnings or buffer time periods in which they inform the workforce that people will be laid off. They cut off access to the files and Slack and a minute later the email about being laid off came from the partners. We did not have any time to process our emotions and did not get to say good bye to any of our colleagues. I am utterly shocked at the firm's irresponsibility and the unprofessionalism of handling the situation where they did not take into account of the consequences this has on their employees.