Great place to work in your 20s - Consultant Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

4.0
Nov 13, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

BCG is an amazing place to work if you want to learn a lot about industry best practices, how to think in a more structured way, and how to effectively solve problems. You will work hard and get rare and unique opportunities that many people don't get until much later in their career.

Cons

Between the last minute travel and the luck required to find "good" projects, there are a few AFDs (areas for development). While the hours can be grueling, it's not uncommon to be told the night before that you're travelling somewhere for a project starting the next morning. This can make planning your personal life a bit difficult. Finding "good" projects is highly dependent on finding people you work well with (from a personality perspective), which is a combination of luck and finding those with whom you have clear commonalities. For those that come from socio-economic backgrounds different from more senior members, this can be particularly difficult.

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Pros

Education on AI Fluency and access to the latest LLM models. My immediate team who energizes me.

Cons

BCG isn't what it used to be. Former CEO Rich Lesser cared about Innovation about deep IP and expertise, truly about unlocking the human potential that powers us. Current CEO and leadership trickles down commercialization message, everything is about metrics, what's the business impact, how many cases did this work touch, what is the trend. Often times appearing shortsighted. Lots of politics, lots of words, limited action from PA leadership, largely because they are unable to make a decision, going back and forth on priorities; Every MDP wanting to own something, with too many chefs in the kitchen, and not enough true clarity. Incentive metrics are broken, and asked to do more, An innovation unit is not recognized.

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