Bain & Company Reviews

WFH Home office setup stipend - How are your companies doing it? I know BCG gvae $250 and Bain monitor/keyboard + $150 for ergonomics, curious about other consulting firms

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Left Bain for an offer at a small tech company, and it took the new employer a month of pushing my start date, poor communication, and “internal discussion” to pull the offer because they think my US work visa is too risky for them, despite immigration lawyers backing me saying there’s virtually no risk. I’m now out of a job and on my visa grace period due to their incompetence (bullet dodged). Any advice on potential actions besides jumping back into recruiting? Feeling quite disrespected 😫

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Hi folks! Young AC from Bain here. I've been with Bain for ~6 months now as my first non-internship position. From the very beginning I'm staffed at DD's with basically no work-life balance and almost 70h work week. It seems unbearable for me and I feel exhausted and maybe even depressed. What is your advice? Shall I just admit that Consulting is not for me and strive for a job somewhere else? Or maybe grit my teeth and spend some time here hoping for Corp. Cases?

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If anyone is considering Bain vs BCG or Bain vs McKinsey... pick BCG or McKinsey. Bain won’t pay you what you’re worth. I wish I had known.

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I didn’t realize that if someone is a consultant at McK or BCG, whether or not they’re actually doing strategy work is not clear. There’s groups of you guys? So different tracks and promotion and pay grades? Every Bain AC or C is the same — some fluidity in PEG vs GP, but overall same. BCG/McK has different tracks — are some of these tracks “better” or more elite? How can I tell who is actually doing strategy work vs staff augmentation or implementation?

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Does your firm use a team survey to keep a pulse on the team experience? I’ve moved on from Bain and looking at New Co to implement something great we had which was an automated survey tool to take a pulse check on the team experience (eg sustainability, client impact, learning) and wondering what other firms are doing for this in a structured way? Any detail helpful!

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Currently applying to my MBA. I defined as short and long term career goal consulting at Bain, but I'm reconsidering my options. Would quitting Bain after being accepted to the MBA have any impact afterwards (e.g. During backgrounds checks)?

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What are the levels on general consulting at BCG? Partner title at BCG means the same as in McK and Bain? Or ir is a “experienced Principal/AP”?

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Does anyone know how much Partners at Deloitte Consulting make on average? Have a friend there who said it’s $5M+ on average. Can that be right? Feels high to me given I think at Bain it’s more like ~$1.5M on average. If that’s true I might honestly jump ship Bain & Company Deloitte

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