Fantastic place to work - but very intense - Associate Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

4.0
Dec 6, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Interesting projects - Great people to work with - A lot of responsibility quickly - Good compensation - Continuously forces you to develop - Great exit opportunities

Cons

- Very long work hours at times (i.e. 80+ hours at it's worst) - Very intense work throughout the days - rushing between meetings while cranking out analyses - Not always possible to keep weekends free (although they are 90%+ of the time) - Lack of flexibility for vacation (i.e. can only take vacation during specific weeks in winter and summer) - Sometimes forced to do non-value creating work due to politics

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