Wavestone reviews

This is truly the worst company to work for. They are a toxic firm with a toxic work culture; the divide between the French and the Americans is absolutely insane. Don't expect a promotion if you're not French, or to be treated respectfully for that manner. They also pretend they do management consulting, but they don't. It's strictly IT/cybersecurity, but they refuse to hire people who are actually interested in that. The churn rate is crazy, and all on the American side; in my tenure here, over 20 American employees have left (and it's a 50 person office in NY!). I have also never in my life seen this amount of micro-management in a workplace. They hire bright individuals, and then they seem to make it their mission to dim the light within them in every way they can. Seriously, if you can go anywhere else...GO.

The first warning sign should be any company that tries to make you sign a waiver that you will work unlimited number of hours per week. UK Law has a 40 hour work week. Wavestone UK will try and get you to sign a legally binding waiver to dismiss these basic rights. This in itself should be a red alarm bell. The second warning is a company that asks its graduate work force to leave positive reviews on Glass Door. The HR team has been posting false positive reviews. This isn't a consulting company. This is a project management company disguised as consulting. Endless employee satisfaction surveys that go nowhere, just a tick-the-box exercise for a failing company that is propped up by it's French parent company. The leadership team lack credibility. and this is a reflection of the companies poor performance, extremely low staff morale and extremely high staff attrition rate. The company suffers a consistent loss every month, and the actual sales figures are hidden from employees. It had an 80% bench at worst and 60% at best during the time I was there. It's propped up by it's French parent company, for which the Partners and so called Directors have enjoyed a gravy train so far. The facts and figures speak for themselves. Once the French parent company pulls the plug it is curtains. The "Cloud Focus Areas" doesn't doesn't have any cloud experience, or any certifications. Zero credibility. The company relies on graduate consultants to trawl through Google and put together generic slide decks for presentation to clients with the Wavestone company logo. Wavestone only has two clients which are also French due to parent company contacts. It has not won new business for years. The so called staffing call will put you on any project in sheer desperation to fiddle the bench numbers to its parent company, regardless of your experience and subject matter expertise and expect you to sink or swim. This puts unrealistic and unfair pressure on graduates who break under pressure. I have never worked in such a toxic organization and with such demotivated employees. The attrition rate is very very high. There is at least a handful of leavers every month and that is when the reality sinks in... Something is very very wrong. Horrendous internal politics and toxic work environment. This company will not progress your career, and there are many managers who are stuck in a job with no progression, and cannot afford to leave as they do not have the right set of skills to find another job.