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I learned an enormous amount and felt incredibly well-treated.  The culture was very good.  

One coworker began paternity leave while I was there and our boss definitely made it clear that she wanted him to know that he had every right to take a full leave, but that she would really like it if he could return sooner than planned.  I wouldn't say that he was truly pressured to return early, but her support for him could've been a bit more wholehearted.

The other major weakness in my personal experience was that my internship was a bit chaotic because it was unofficial.  My status occured because I was not a current student, but rather started my career late.  I appreciate 100% that the company made an exception and specially created the temporary position specifically to benefit me, but I think it's worth ackowledging that they could've organized it a bit better.  At times, I felt that those supervising me were perhaps overly kind for my good and may not have always given me fully honest feedback.

In spite of those very minor issues, I would recommend this employer enthusiastically to anyone and would gladly accept a position there in the future.

Oliver Wyman is the 'sweatshop' boutique consulting firm you have heard about at an international scale. 
This sweatshop atmosphere is layered on top of a culture where it is difficult to trust/believe anything that individual managers or firm leaders tell you. If everything internally were how it is marketed, or how it is described by firm leadership then the firm would be fantastic, however the disconnect between description and reality is mind-bending. 
as an example - the career trajectory here is described as 'not up or out', yet the compensation model and career counselling is explicitly up-or-out driven. 
Managers are mostly just really good consultants who have limited managerial training, resulting in extreme micro-management of all of their direct reports. 

the training routines here are underfunded and offered 1 year too late for most people (regardless of what the training is)

Phenomenal consulting firm, at least in the US. Good compensation, a culture that actually walks the walk when it comes to empowering and developing their junior employees, and a strong culture that values hard work and social skills in equal measure, and doesn't fall prey to some of the more negative consulting stereotypes (e.g., it's not overly competitive or "finance bro"-y). Work life balance can be a bit rough, as with all consulting, but firm leadership has made a genuine (and in my opinion, impactful) effort to address this throughout the past year.  I've never felt like I was underpaid for the amount of work I do. 

Oliver Wyman is a great place to work. The culture is a good example of the work hard, play hard saying. There are several ways to get involved within the firm from joining an employee resource group (there are several) to participating in social and volunteer events. 
What I have found difficult to do is break out of the executive assistant role. Even as a manager you must support a partner. If you do not have support from your manager or partner then it will a steep upward hill to get into another role and you will likely need to take some sort of a pay cut to do so. Overall, I have enjoyed my time here and have learned a lot about myself and how to conduct with the corporate world. I wouldn't change my experiences here.

Oliver Wyman is a leading global strategic management consulting firm  that encourages its Partners to run their businesses as an entrepreneur. While there is a great emphasis on building one's individual portfolio of clients, there are also significant and beneficial incentives to collaborate within industry groups and across verticals to develop leverageable intellectual capital for the benefit of the firm and it's total portfolio of clients. It is a supportive environment for the Partner team and for the individual consultants who worked daily with clients to find creative, value enhancing solutions to those enterprises most challenging strategic and operating issues.

The work was manageable unless if you're a really good expert on Excel. But it's good to know the technical stuff ahead of time so that you're co-workers won't try to nag at you about speed and performance. 

Job culture was amazing but their training programs for new interns aren't as great as it should be. They need to improve especially within the ITS department otherwise the "performance" they expect from their interns will not show if they do not provide a typical 2-3 week training program for the intern. A 3-day training isn't much of a help, especially if you're coming from a different subject line, such as an Economics major into an ITS department.

Every day was different.  Assisted with all helpdesk and desktop support issues in NY office. Worked on various projects. I was in charge of encryption of all desktop and laptops globally. Including testing several different encryption software before settling on Safeboot. Once testing was completed I began the rollout which included offices in NY, London, Australia and Singapore. Assisted with email migration from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange.

Being an EA and remote at Oliver Wyman is a great experience. The teams are great to work with but Partners can sometimes be difficult to work with. Who you get as a Partner is not really up to you at the beginning but management will work with you if you are not getting along after a while. They want the best for you. Average starting pay depends on where you locate.  If you start as an EA, you’ll probably get $60-75k ore tax. Bonus every year and slight salary increase based on promotion. 

The people in the highest roles are just there because they’ve stayed loyal to “the firm”. They don’t have the qualifications to be running the department, or the management training to have direct reports. I don’t know what it’s like on the consultancy side, but the comp is terrible and inclusion is a joke. As for the work, if you want to be making PowerPoints all day, this is the place for you. Don’t expect to be doing anything exciting. 

I spent six years at Oliver Wyman and I am glad I did. I received a ton of experience over the course of my time there that I don't think I would have been able to get my hands on at many places.

My co-workers were probably the most enjoyable part of the job, it was an environment where you could collaborate on a daily basis to meet the needs of the business and help hone your skills as well.

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