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Hewitt Associates prides themselves on being the best at what they do. Being first among other companies in the HR outsourcing field. The company was founded on certain values that have kept Hewitt on top of it's game up until 5 years ago. This is probably the worst company I have ever had to work for in my life! Yes and I have worked in a retail environment, figure that one out! The management is the worst dog and pony show I have ever seen. They continue to feed you this crap about you will have the opportunity to do great things and bring in the client work and work on various implementation teams. What absolute lies. I work in the CSS part of the Toronto office. We have 3 managers. J$%^ O@#$%^&*, T&^@#$ M@#$%^&*( and E@ B#$%^&. These managers are probably the best example of company dollars being wasted on a daily basis. If it were just a matter of going in to work doing your job and leaving. That would be great. But it is NEVER like that. These managers get paid for hanging over your shoulder and telling you to do stupid things like "hang your jacket in the closet, or else!" Give me a break. Don't they have more important things to do? The answer is simple, no they don't they are just trying to justify their existence and get that green. Can I blame them, no - but if that is all you are doing as a manager, just trying to collect the paycheck, stay the hell off your employee's backs and stop micromanaging them. Hewitt is by far the most toxic environment anyone can work for. If you want to get far with Hewitt, don't bet on a raise of more that 2.5% or nothing at all some review cycles, although they will expect you to jump as high as you can anyway. Hewitt's reason for not giving a raise is "we're trying to bring the new people up to a medium level such as you are now", so in short if you gt to your mid-salary point don't expect anymore from this failure of a company. If you want to get a raise past your mid point then learn to kiss some @ss in that place. I remember that one of the managers J@!$ O*&$%^$#, would start giving you sh#$ for walking in 5 minutes late and then when you start complimenting her on her hair, all of a sudden she forgot those few minutes you walked in late, probably due to TTC issues anyway, but they don't give a rat's @ss anyway. Another thing that Hewitt will expect you to do is stay late whenever they want you too. If you are like me you will know your rights and tell them to f off. Other co-workers just stay late for fear of losing their jobs or getting a shi$$% raise at performance review time, which they would have gotten anyway, they just don't see that crappy if anything raise come at all. If you would like to work for a company in the HR sector, stay clear of Hewitt in Toronto, especially the CSS department. Trust me take a job in the retail sector, at least there you will only have to deal with crappy customers, you can leave and go home on time and you will peobably have a laugh, at Hewitt I feel like the life force is slowing being sucked out of my spirit. One last note, if you love being in meetings then this place is for you. The management will have a meeting to discuss what socks they should wear. In short they will call a meeting to discuss the most stupid things, waste your time and expect you to stay late to complete work that you would have finished if you had not been in that meeting. I truly hate this company, this is my experience.