Pros
The company was showing incredibly fast growth and has strong industry partnerships. Employee onboarding/training is pretty good. Schedule flexibility is great-- consultants can mostly work their own hours (depending on project constraints, of course). Spaulding Ridge is a great training ground/launching pad to move on to other tech/product companies after 1-2 years
Kontras
***The firm is extremely siloed (and sometimes cliquey) with each practice having very different cultures/not much intermeshing. My review applies primarily to the DocuSign practice*** - Minimal opportunities for upward mobility: When I was hired, they said that there was no timeline for promotions and that they were completely merit-based. They also claimed that "promotions from within" would be prioritized. When it came time for promotion reviews, they denied my promotion request and claimed "I hadn't met the minimum tenure requirement to be considered for promotion," which is odd because I was *encouraged* by upper management to apply for the promotion in the first place. It was also in direct contrast with what I was told when hired. In fact, they did not promote ANYONE from the Analyst class during 2021. A lot of people started leaving after this. - There is very clear favoritism/nepotism on display. Those with family/friends in upper management are indiscriminately promoted, regardless of performance/merit. - Pay is fair, but altogether lower than what the market will offer for the same work. Most competitors offered me 10-25% more in base pay to do the same job. I ended up taking a 50% raise to work somewhere else. - DEI is completely superficial-- at the time of writing, SR claims to prioritize DEI, yet the leadership is entirely White/Asian and almost all male. POC are not represented, except in junior/entry level positions. I don't identify as a woman, but I have heard that there are serious issues around misogyny from upper management as well. - Management can be vindictive. Once I started asking questions about how things were run, management accused me of being selfish/entitled and I even had a partner gaslight me by suggesting that I "don't contribute anything to the firm." In fact, once I left, they had the Legal team write a formal accusation to the HR Department at my new company, saying that I was wrongfully recruiting people from SR-- not only was this simply untrue (I didn't speak to any ex-coworkers after leaving SR), it was immature and reflected poorly on me at my new job. When I tried to reach out to SR to clear up the issue, I was ignored by multiple members of the Executive team that I was previously close with. Great launching pad for other opportunities, but be careful here. Sometimes it feels like the firm is just an investment vehicle for the founders/partners.
