HR Team and much of Ops is Tribal, Political, and Not to be Trusted. - Punching Bag Protiviti Employee Review

2.0
14 Mar 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Keep your nose down, play the game, know who the influencers are, kiss their butt and you will do fine. Independent thinking is not valued. So if you can follow the herd and say a few smart sound bites here and there without stepping on toes you will be lauded.

Cons

If you have interesting varied work experience (considering many in Protiviti have only worked at Protiviti or very few jobs in their whole life, so have little practical, market-competitive real life valuable experience) be prepared for your high-value knowledge to be disregarded and often totally discarded to make room for the same old same old egos with a fixed mindset full of themselves. They talk a great game of innovation, but ask who has innovated what and benchmark it!

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5.0
22 Apr 2026
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Pros

WLB compared to Big 4 leadership was very nice to junior employees relatively predictable career progression

Cons

Many co-workers are incapable in the domain they work.

3.0
29 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1) Chicago office has a good culture, overall. It’s not perfect but most of the people are great. 2) Work-life balance score has been solid (about 5+ years of insights here) 3) Although it was not great this year, Incentive compensation has overall been pretty good over the course of 5+ years. Much better than big 4 in my experience.

Cons

1) Since 2023, the culture hasn’t been great for a variety of reasons (mainly due to sluggish performance and growing too fast) 2) It feels more like a temporary staffing agency versus a consulting firm for a lot of the time. 3) There has been an awkward push for a return to the office and more business development focus that is in stark contrast to what most Protiviti people value. 4) Most people I talk to say they are not motivated by most of the MDs they interact with (this is significant in my opinion).

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