Great people and interesting work, but long hours - Associate Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

4.0
Mar 7, 2014
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Pros

-Intelligent, passionate colleagues -In-depth training in hard and soft business skills -Opportunities to do high visibility, high impact work as a young professional -Clear performance evaluation standards and promotion track

Cons

Work-life balance is always a struggle with client service jobs, so don't be surprised to have long hours and frequent travel depending on your cases. During your first year, you don't have a ton of influence in selecting the projects you're staffed on.

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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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