Wavestone reviews

Everything. I joined six months ago. I was quite impressed by the narrative on transformation on their website. During my interviews I was told that they have a great set of customers, who they are helping with digitalisation, and they only compete with the big four. Within a couple of weeks of my joining, I realised my mistake. Firstly, there are no projects at all. There are hardly 3 customers and the volume of work is shrinking at a fast pace. There is no growth plan or a vision. The senior management is a joke. Seems they amateurs. They don't have technical skills or business knowledge. Their only focus is staffing and contracting model of business. As a junior level consultant there is so much pressure on me getting utilised on billable projects, but there is no support. Only solution the management has come up with is to ship their consultants to France for projects at Wavestone France. And then there are politics all over the place. Most incapable people are running the company because they are good at politics, I suppose. Obviously, they are unable to attract any talent. On the whole, with the current set up the firm is doomed for failure in the next 12 months.

Many, but some major ones are: -No culture - gender diversity is severely lacking too (~80% male) -No diversity of client base (French Banks) -Tons of people on the bench for long periods of time -Focus on recruiting new candidates (even with utilization so low) vs. retaining staff - then complaining about how much they are spending on interviewing/hiring new candidates -Boring projects -No training opportunities