Korn Ferry Employee Reviews
Out of 256 Korn Ferry employee reviews, 72% were positive. The remaining 28% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Korn Ferry improve their work culture. The Operations team, with 73% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Korn Ferry compared to all other departments at the company.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Scientific literacy: most of the people in leadership positions aren't able to define the difference between science and pseudoscience. Statistical integrity: there is a pervasive lack of concern for statistical best-practices, p-hacking, post-hock hypotheses, and pre-determined results.
Actually lead the business or try to
Over promote, arrogant and have no people skills. If you are not a manager you are just pond scum
Review from HR Dept
Validating employees' efforts. Maybe get better at firing themselves and replacing themselves with individuals who are interested in doing some work.
Review all employees including senior staff. Practice what you preach (and sell to your clients).
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Merit increases, a better 401K offering and a more transparent bonus process
Higher base and/or bonus pay
Pay market rates and provide an annual bonus or share scheme
Korn Ferry is not at par in the market, especially in the PH. We hope we can have better benefits such as performance bonuses.
Review from HR Dept
Every year without a pay raise is an effective pay cut. In real terms my compensation never increased.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Limited interaction with others. There is no culture
The entire company leadership needs to be overhauled
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Become a company rather than a coalition of willing entrepreneurs.
Get rid of sociopathic executives, have actual values (not just lip-service), have ethics (name one client we voluntarily refused on ethical grounds), stop working people into the ground, practice what you preach, learn what scientific integrity is.
Asking staff how they feel, having zero tolerance for bad behaviour, invest in the development of their own people
The US exec team need to let local markets manage themselves. Allow us to be successful
Reduced bureaucracy, incentive plans need a radical overhaul, focus on internal equity, greater transparency, more delegated authority to local leaders.
Review from Operations Dept
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Experienced the inefficiency of KF recruitment first hand. While working there they used their "expertise" and foisted a senior developer who has zero coding experience onto our team. God help our clients. In my opinion, KF has no place placing technical or specialized talent.
More accurately described opportunities with partnership.
Long interview process with lots of behavioral questions that had nothing to do with the job description.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
To many layoffs quality of work slipping
Review from Operations Dept
There's a big focus on selling psychometric profiles that, by their very nature, favor people who profile like those already in the majority group (e.g. neurotypical straight white men). There is also a pervasive view that the "code monkeys" who made the bread-and-butter you sell are mere tools.
Engage employees on a personal level and tell the CEO to have some self awareness.
Better treatment and pay for employees. Fair workloads and more support in leadership
Everything that has to do with internal bureaucracy and politics
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