Oliver Wyman Reviews

Pros

Good company and culture. Global firm

Cons

Work life balance / may need to work overtime

Pros

Overall good culture, somewhat collaborative environment, decent pay, teams mostly fun to work with

Cons

Skewed towards Financial Services, promotion process starting from a certain level is not merit-based

Pros

Nice people around. Steep learning curve.

Cons

Little bit demanding. but good for overall growth

Pros

Excellent people, challenging projects and opportunity to see many parts of the world/working cultures and teams

Cons

Long hours and travel commitments make it hard to sustain.

Pros

Can quickly specialise in an industry or practice, often much more quickly than competitors. Other pros are common to Tier 1 & 2 management consulting firms in general (decent pay, prestige, exit opportunities, etc.)

Cons

Limited set of industries or practices to choose from in smaller offices. Other cons are common to the consulting industry.

Advice to Management

Step up the organised training to enable new joiners to be less reliant on on-the-job training. Keep working to increase transparency in setting expectations and targets to consultants.

Pros

fun, good culture, people are very supportive. The Asia market is growing extremely quickly and we have tons of opportunities

Cons

Hours can be quite long, i worked till 2am for 2 consecutive weeks. Other than that it seems great

Advice to Management

Give more autonomy and choices to consultants on staffing

Pros

1. Very intelligent people 2, Regional/Global staffing -- meaning well travelled 3. Very good culture, fun group to hang out and travel together with (when I first joined)

Cons

1. Legacy OW could be too narrowly focussed on Financial Services - hard to get a more generalist view on business. 2. Consulting projects in FS such as banks these days are mostly defensive plays instead of more innovative topics 3. Challenging work life balance compared to MMB peers

Advice to Management

Listen to your people more, especially when it comes to venturing into emerging markets.

Pros

-- opportunities to work on international projects and travel for training and offsites (also a chance to realise that other offices have it much better than us) -- you learn how to work hard -- pay is good. if you do it for anything, do it for the money

Cons

-- no concept of work/life balance...greedy partners exploit consultants to the max. All-nighters are common. No apologies for postponed and cancelled vacations -- staffers don't stand up for consultants -- most managers (maybe all but 2 or 3) are inept and create a lot of unnecessary work -- misogynistic...I felt sorry for my female colleagues -- vs. other consulting firms and even other OW offices, very... little investment in giving all consultants a chance to develop. Seems that managers pick their "pets" to develop + fast-track and everyone else gets left behind. Lots of politics

Advice to Management

Pay attention to what's happening in Dubai...it's ugly