Terrible Ethics and culture from the top down - Lead Engineer Booz Allen Hamilton Employee Review

1.0
Jan 23, 2025
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Pros

A month of PTO - But that is also your sick days or any other time you need to take off.

Cons

Fraud. This company is constantly committing fraud against their customers and government. We were told by leadership many times to bill the customer for hours when we were not working on customer projects. Also, the leadership has the worse ethics of anyone I have seen. The leadership will not talk to you or your job supervisors before accusing you of violating an ethics issue even when you have not. But will gladly commit fraud by helping a person leave the company to claim financial hardship and then hire that person right back after the hardship is reported. Leadership will also do illegal operations outside of their legal authority. For example, we were told to work on equipment we were not authorized to work on but if we brought this up as a huge legal and ethics issue, we were told to not worry about it. If you report issues to ethics you are dismissed.

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5.0
Jun 23, 2026
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Pros

Usually no overtime. Diverse job assignments are available.

Cons

Many job assignments are at military sites, and must be done in person.

3.0
Mar 7, 2026
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Pros

Booz Allen used to support people when they were between contracts. It was a good time to grow your skills while you were looking. There are also many contracts and projects that it is possible to work on, so it’s a good place to start your career and get some experience before finding another role elsewhere.

Cons

Since 2025, the government contracting cycle has been disrupted and there is no longer any patience for down time between contracts. Always Be Billing! Also, the company is trying to market themselves as a tech company that develops its own products, and they do have some products, but for all of the talk, most of the work is still government contracting. So, any R&D efforts for most will come after 40 billable hours for the week plus any other company service you do. I don’t know how many have the energy to do this over a longer period of time. It’s definitely subject to office politics, as any large corporation would be. There are inside groups and outside groups on the bigger contracts. If you’re not in the in-group, you’ll have to fend for yourself. At least the company name looks good on a resume for an external job search! Ditched the DEI efforts as soon as the Trump administration said that was the condition for receiving federal funding. I get why they did it, but it makes some of the company’s stated values ring hollow.

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