Growth and professional development at a cost - Associate Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

4.0
Jun 29, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

High impact work, very intelligent, credentialed, and well-connected coworkers, early leadership opportunities, great exit opportunities

Cons

Toxic, extremely cutthroat / competitive “up or out” culture, absolutely zero work-life balance. No effort being made to improve work-life balance given that there is always another Ivy League kid with a 4.0 waiting and willing to take your place

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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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