Young Company with its Pros and Cons - Client Associate Guidepoint Employee Review

The opportunity for growth at Guidepoint is very appealing. There is a structured corporate ladder designed to introduce you to aspects of sales, account management, and project organization. I feel very confident moving forward with the skills I’ve learned here in pursuit of future exit opportunities.

No cons as of today.

It's not too hard. Flexible WFH days. You get 15 PTO days and 8 sick days, and encouraged to use all sick days. People are nice. Office is really nice. Dress code is casual (jeans)

Low NYC Salary-- other expert networks make more A lot of the job is luck -- luck if people on linkedin respond, and luck if your client likes booking a lot of calls The skills aren't all that transferrable -- need to do something client-facing next Happy hour stinks. No real client relationships are built. Clients view us as lower down Your team really determines your experience here (I was on a hard team and got paid the same as the easy teams) I wish I was on the institutional side, not the consulting side (BCG and Bain are not looking to hire people with an expert network background, but you can build a connection with other hedgefund/bank clients if you are not on a consulting team) On the consulting side, you are assigned one client(company) for all of your work. If you don't have a good client you are ruined. Some teams can easily book 200+calls a month, my team its impressive to get 100 (you get paid per call when you are promoted to Research Manager/Project Manager). The woman that leads consulting loves to publicly call people out for their mistakes on the consulting floor. I once was chatting with my coworker and she told me to "get back to work" (she doesnt even know my name) I think that if you went to a good school and you are a hard worker, you deserve better than this job. Many people leave within the first 6 months.