Booz Allen Hamilton reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(10,437 total reviews)
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Horacio D. Rozanski

79% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Booz Allen Hamilton has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 10,437 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
Sep 30, 2008
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Pros

Benefits, Work Life Balance at times, Always something going on in McLean in terms of training and activities. However, most are never lucky enough to be allowed to attend because they are chained to their seats on client site.

Cons

Management is HORRIBLE! Team cares more about making documents and deliverables "look pretty" as oppossed to the actual content of the items. You either get lucky with your manager, team, and project or you don't. And, don't even try to move around within. You will be black marked and described as no longer being a team player. Also, even though they claim they do not support "butts in seats" roles, if you are on the government side, you will almost always be performing a government-type job and may even be managing a government employee. And the worst was being told I could not attend training that had been scheduled and approved because I was not allowed to leave my seat at client site.

5.0
Sep 30, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

In my seven years at Booz Allen Hamilton, I have worked on many projects for many clients. I am an Electrical Engineer supporting the Homeland Security / Law Enforcement group. I have supported the FBI, Navy, State Department, Capitol Police, US Marshals and the DEA. I have done task such as circuit design, PCB layout, CPLD and FPGA design, embedded software, systems engineering and project management. I have looked at other companies from time to time. They usually have a hard time matching the salary and the benefits that I receive at Booz Allen. For the compensation, other companies usually come in about 20k less that what I am making. For benefits, I get low medical, lots of PTO and 10% into my 401k, regardless if I put in anything or not.

Cons

I do not like the buzz words that I have to deal with at Booz Allen Hamilton. It seems that every couple of months there is something else that we are supposed to try to do. This month, I am supposed to try to get "plugged into" different groups within Booz Allen. I am supposed to try to connect to other people so that synergy may flow between groups. I do not like the move up or out mentality of Booz Allen. I believe that there is a place for technical, functional people in the workplace. I don't like having to dress to impress at Booz Allen HQ. I wear slacks and a tie to the client site where I work most of the time. If I have to go to HQ for some reason during the day, I feel very uncomfortable wearing this. Almost everyone at HQ wears the suit.

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