The culture at Navigant is truly great. Everyone in the company is very young, everyone is very friendly, and the Partners are always open to talking with you at anytime. Your incoming class is like a family. You start together, go to training together, and get promotions (hopefully) together. I like that you have a start class of about 10 people because it creates a fun atmosphere in the company.

The culture at the office is very young and fun. The people that I work with have high energy and we constantly go out on the town for happy hour. I have even met up with my coworkers on the weekends. There are many office events and we even get free sports tickets from the company.

I am a 2nd year consultant with Navigant. It is true that a big part of being a 1st or 2nd year consultant here is making binders. But, that does not mean that is everyone's path. I have made less than 5 binders in my last year here and never had to work a weekend. I have gotten to do real analysis that has even become final work product. My mentors and managers always take the time to sit down and teach me something I do not know how to do. I have learned so much my last year here, and it is because of the people I work with and the opportunities they give me. If you speak up, you will gain the best work experience and learn more than you ever learned in college.

Travel greatly depends on the project that you are staffed on. Most of the work is done at the office. If your office does not have much work, then you will be flown out to cities across the nation to help out busier offices. The great thing is that Navigant pays for everything, so it's like a mini trip to another city. You'll work at another office for four days and fly back home on the fifth.

Navigant strongly emphasizes quality control, so you will be constantly checking Excel equations with a calculator and will soon have your favorite red pencil for checking off correct and incorrect equations. As a first or second year consultant, the build of your work will be quality checks and binder making.

Dress is very relaxed at Navigant. Business casual around the office and casual days on Fridays where we're allowed to wear jeans. I work an average of 55 hours a week, which is very good for a consulting firm.

Everyone is young, funny, and a lot of fun. We have casual summers (jeans from memorial day to labors day!) and business casual for the rest of the year. Our kitchen at the LA office is always stocked wtih great snacks and beverages, and I get free lunches many times a quarter.

$55K salary and $3K signing bonus became $59K salary after 6 months of working. At the next year end, I expect to be making 10% more...so roughly $65K as a 2nd year consultant working ~50 hour work weeks, 3 weeks vacation, 2 floating holidays each year, and 10 sick days.

You will learn a lot as a consultant here from your peers and your mentors. Training is held many times a year in Chicago, so everyone always signs up to go - you will learn AND have a great time. The company itself is growing constantly as well in organic and inorganic ways. In these current economic times, this industry (Litigation Consulting) is thriving as people try to protect themselves and their assets.

There are some great online training programs that Navigant offers. You can learn many new technical skills on your own when you have down time or when you are in-between projects.

Navigant is a great company. The outlook of the firm looks strong, the management and leaders are all very smart and they are great people to learn from, and my peers are all very fun and friendly.

I was hired in 2007 as a first year consultant. I made $55,000 coming out of college and was given a $3,000 signing bonus. I felt this was very competitive and excellent pay for coming out of your undergrad. You also get 2 floating holidays throughout the year and I believe 3 weeks of vacation time.

The company is very young (most of the consultants are in their early to mid 20's) which leads to a fun environment. However, this means that you don't get that much exposure to high level management that you can learn from. You really have to be self motivated and take it upon yourself to create opportunities.

Navigant does not have a case interview. All of it is fit. Because of this, it is not hard to get into the company. Although you do need a 3.5 gpa and great leadership experiences, they don't really test your limits during the interview. Thus, the team that I came into the company with were not exactly the most stellar people. The managers were also not people that I really look up to. Great people, but not great role models

As a first year in the company, I make binders, enter data, and do quality checks everyday. This means that I check excel calculations with a calculator and check them off if the calculations are correct. Yes, extremely boring! I get billed out at $200 an hour! That means that I make $200 binders!

There seems to be a very high turnover ratio here. I have seen many second years at the company leave to move on to another company in a different industry and a lot of the top management move on with their careers as well. You can take this two ways: either Navigant offers you great training so that you can further your career, or after two years at Navigant, you just can't take it and you have to leave.

Pretty basic growth model at Navigant Consulting. After about 2 years, you can be promoted to the Senior Consultant level. After that, it takes about another three years. You really do need to wait for your window of opportunity, even if you stand out by working hard.

As a Summer Associate at Navigant Consulting, I was paid $20 per hour and received time and a half for overtime.

As a Managing Consultant, I receive $90,000 and an annual bonus of $12,000.

The company outlook is good. At times it feels like Navigant focuses more on outings and company events, rather than promotions and monetary compensation. Employees don't enjoy the work, but we don't hate it either. Overall, the best thing about the company are the people that I work with.

I got $55,000 as a first year consultant with a signing bonus of $3,000. The average salary increase at the end of the year is 10%. We get three weeks of paid time off and two floating holidays.

As a new employee, the work will all be grunt work. Most of the work will be doing document reviews, sitting at your laptop doing excel work, or sitting in a room filling out binders, binders, and more binders.

Promotion in the company, especially from the Consultant to Senior Consultant level, is a standard set time rather than merit. Navigant will promote you when it's your time to get promoted. If you've been working hard and standing out, you will not get promoted early. If you've been lagging and just doing the bare minimum, you will most likely get promoted just like everyone else.

I am a Managing Consultant and receive a salary of $160,000 . When I signed with the company in 2007, I received a signing bonus of $10,000.