Nothing but lies & over-inflated egos - Senior Consultant Mackenzie Stuart Employee Review

Many previous reviews have hit the nail on the head. Firstly, just ask yourself why everytime there is a negative review, there soon follows a spate of positive reviews all echoing the same tune posted on the same day? It is a response by the director's to continue the facade that the company is somehow great to work for. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is no graduate scheme, all the training involves is manager's most of whom have no idea how to manage let alone train, taking turns talking to grads for a few hours a week about how to navigate the inevitable web of lies you will have strung for yourself about how you are 'an expert in your market' and 'have many leading clients'. Just some of the many lies spun. Nobody is an 'expert', realistically the only knowledge most people have of their market will be whatever they managed to look up on the internet for a few hours a week in what little spare time they have. 'We do 90% of our work retained'. Another massive porkie. Instant money is far more important than repeat business. The company is blacklisted by so many companies that you will spend large parts of your days trying to sort out the undelivered emails, and how to weasel around different companies auto-reject inboxes. If a client relationship will not provide almost instant business, it is not worth the time and the relationship is likely burned due to continual spamming of emails. Away from what you spend your 12 hours a day doing, you will no doubt spend a few hours a week being roasted and humiliated, often in front of the whole office, by the two directors, who take great pleasure in highlighting how useless and stupid you are as an individual, making many personal digs, generally being horrible human beings and then continuing to sit at their desks and do little more than the job of a glorified in-house recruiter, spamming out 10,000 LinkedIn messages to unsuspecting graduates. I have no doubt in response to this there will be the wave of 'positive 4 & 5 star responses' posted in a desperate plea from the director's to hide the ever-crumbling facade that is this (unfortunately) continually functioning hellhole of a place. Then there is the salary. You'll start on £18k (give or take £1k) and be contracted to 8:30-17:30. Doesn't sound too bad. Until you realise that you are working 12 hour days for the first 6 months where you likely will not earn any commission, and you have worked out at this point that you are getting paid less than the minimum wage (illegal) and that someone who left school at 16 and now works full time at McDonald's is now earning more than you. An earlier review describing one of the director's as a waste of oxygen seemed a rather nice description. This individual is the epitomy of self-indulgence. Flaunting his money and fancy suits to paper over the cracks of his empty life with no friends and nobody who respects him, while constantly belittling consultants and telling them that everything they say is wrong. You're not that great. You can have your nice car and expensive tastes, but your life will always be hollow and empty, taking small pleasures from those you deem lesser than you, which is all your staff. Ask yourself do you really want to subject yourself to this? Do not fall into the trap of this company or their multiple umbrella companies, (which are conveniently set up to avoid an increase in corporation tax, even though ultimately remaining under the control of the two director's and CEO). If you are heart-set on recruitment, pick any company other than this one.