Booz Allen Hamilton reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(10,425 total reviews)
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Horacio D. Rozanski

79% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Booz Allen Hamilton has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 10,425 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Booz Allen Hamilton employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Jul 2, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The healthcare benefits are excellent. The vacation benefit is on par with industry. The general work environment is professional and there are some really smart and hard working people in the organization.

Cons

The upper management, principals and above are very disconnected from the organization. I was in the firm for over a year yet the only time I met my principal was when he hired me and when he laid me off. The staffing process is a joke, there is no process you are expected to apply to each job as you would externally and have go to through the same process (i.e. multiple interviews, non responsive hiring managers, recruiters and even negotiate salaries due to salary caps). There is no help from the internal resource managers. In terms of work, most of the work is staff augmentation. There are very limited consulting opportunities, for the most part BAH is operating as a staffing firm where it fills seats with its resources. BAH hired several hundred people for its new "commercial practice" yet laid them off within a matter of 3-6 months so job stability is non-existent. You are expected to take any project whether it is a skillset match or not or even aligned with your career goals just to keep your job. There is no severance process, you are just given a 2 week notice and shown the door unlike most of the top tier consulting firms. The assessment process is very cumbersome and biased. They say it is a 360 feedback yet only specific feedback is filtered into the final assessment to ensure that you get the planned "assessment"

1.0
Jan 5, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of intelligent and capable folks to work with under the management level Diverse industry engagements and work force to be invovled with

Cons

Horrible senior management, zero guidance or leadership support Engagements are more about putting bodies in seats, rather than challenging consulting work Management only cares about folks being billable or getting billable No loyalty or support, be billable or be gone, even if you were billable and lost your contract due to the company's decision Work Life balance only exists if you are in a senior leadership position and getting a regular bonus

1.0
Dec 13, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

At least there's variety in my work. If you want to be part of Kafaesque endless cycle of pointless bureaucratic nightmares and develop a new shiny algorithm for managers to smash with a hammer with until they're bored of it then BAH fits the bill.

Cons

You constantly are pressured and need to look for billable work, even though you're expected to not be paid for your time doing it (interview or writing RFPs). Right now it's a week before my Christmas vacation and I have 4 days left in this year before I go away and I'm constantly told to meet my billable target of 88 hours and hounded about it each day. When you are given billable hours, it's either for a project you hate or for something you wanted but hours are limited and clients keep scope-creeping when they detect any signal of life in you. Most project leads are sexist, ill-equipped to handle issues and enormously corrupt- favoring their "army" buddies and spending enormous amounts on bribing clients. I'm constantly working 12 hours for the past six months, while others get paid twice my salary to once in a while check their phone or harass you about how "liberals are ruining America". The few engineers that are competent there, have to compete in a constant death match to get billable hours and there's very little camaraderie. Clients projects often will set random immediate impossible deadlines, then once you have finished to their specifications, they won't even view it or they'll complain that you used an ugly color on your api model interface- when you spent hours not sleeping to create a complex AI model and the interface wasn't even in scope. Booz Alllen Internal investments are often disorganized and poorly funded, and have the same ideas repeated each time because no one has enough time to ramp up on them. Don't expect to be respected or treated like a human if you work here, because to BAH you're just menial wage servant with no outside family or other demands besides work.

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