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Boston Consulting Group

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Great benefits and prestige, people management not a core competence - Anonymous employee Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

3.0
Jun 5, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Pay and Benefits are market setters and are way ahead of my previous firm -Tons of smart people there and the company has a great market reputation -Depending on your office, leadership works to have a lot of office events and foster a close atmosphere, In the smaller offices this is really effective

Cons

-Work-Life balance is just not a concern and is blown out of the water on nearly every project, red-zone reports are generated but no-one really pays attention -Culture is VERY young, so you are almost always working for people who are smart, high-achievers with no real leadership experience and, often, very low empathy. This attitude tends to apply to both team and client relations. -As a consultant and below, you're not encouraged to do anything but project work, limiting your ability to build a network outside of your project team, if on a small team or a bad project then you're going to be in a bad way very quickly. -Immense up or out pressure(especially on Project Leaders) leads to an atmosphere of extreme competition and there is a lot of back-stabbing and throwing under the bus.

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Cons

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Pros

BCG has top tier benefits, really smart colleagues, good in-office perks, and has a great company reputation. This was a huge part of my experience and has made me go back forth about my decision to leave.

Cons

This is speaking as someone who is not on the consulting side. On my particular team, office politics were very strong with little to no opportunities for people outside of the inner circle to assimilate. More broadly, I feel like the salary trajectory was a little slow, there is a lack of location mobility and and promotions can be hard to come by. Even so, I have personally seen exceptions be made for certain people. More broadly, being located in North America can be difficult since new roles are being open in other regions which is making internal mobility next to impossible. If you have any dissatisfaction with your current team, title, or level - there's a real possibility that you will have to wait multiple years before being able to make meaningful shifts towards your long term career goals.

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