Bain & Company Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company full-time for more than a year

Pros – strong culture and nice, down to earth people...

Cons – high turnover translates to limited investment in mentorship

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Bain & Company

Pros – - Work hard surrounded by very bright and competent people
- Very high learning curve
- Good benefits and salary relative to consulting firms out of the top 3

Cons – - They play on the emotional weaknesses of consultants to make them work harder
- Managers are promoted for being good client managers, not for managing teams well, so a lot of managers are not concerned with how their teams view them

Advice to Senior Management – - I know it's not easy, but one of these days Bain is going to have to deal with the fact that it's not a very welcoming environment towards women past a certain tenure. Try as they might with women's dinners, etc, it still feels like an old boys club.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company

Pros – Really great people. I always feel inspired at Bain and get great proffessional development opportunities. We also get a lot of responsibility

Cons – Work life balance can be an issue. Hard to know how tough a given week will be in advance so making social plan can be challenging.

Advice to Senior Management – Management has managed downturn really well. I would make a push to enter government space give their greater involvement in corporate america.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company full-time for more than a year

Pros – +People are fantastic
+Learning is rapid, and the analytical tools you build are transferrable
+From a high-level, the work is very interesting, and you can get a lot of responsibility at a junior level

Cons – - Relative to other consulting firms, feels like junior people get less exposure to clients
- Promotions at the more junior level are tenure-based, rather than merit-based
- The junior level work can be very uninteresting, and you live in Excel/Powerpoint

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company

Pros – Brightest people, interesting work, and great training

Cons – Difficult lifestyle, travel and long hours are not sustainable

Former Employee – worked at Bain & Company

Pros – Learning curve, great colleagues, dynamic company with much drive, very smart people;

Cons – worklife-balance is non-existent, hard to balance with private life / family life;

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great training environment: instittionalized professional development systems, with regular chats with supervisor and mentor, formal review after each case, consensus review after every 6 months, global training program every 1.5 years of your tenure on average, local training program every 2-6 months each year (depending on level). Development criteria common across offices.
Strong culture: true north, results driven, answer-first / hypothesis led approach, etc; culture common across offices, but some variations in work-life balance.
Strong global network of well-connected offices (and hence opportunities), like 6-month transfers, permanent transfers, on-demand transfers

Cons – Sometimes work can be physically very tiring, without creating a lot of value for the client; leadership team's ability to manage client's direction and expectation can vary wildly
You will not learn/develop too deeply in any technical knowledge or expertise: e.g. financial forcasting and valuation modeling

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company

Pros – Talented people, very career oriented

Cons – Hard to get work/life balance

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company

Pros – Mentorship, Learning, Opportunity to advance quickly

Cons – Lifestyle not always under your control

Current Employee – been working at Bain & Company

Pros – Great people, great environment to workin

Cons – Tough job, straining at times