Great benefits and prestige, people management not a core competence - Anonymous employee Boston Consulting Group Employee Review

3.0
Jun 5, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Pay and Benefits are market setters and are way ahead of my previous firm -Tons of smart people there and the company has a great market reputation -Depending on your office, leadership works to have a lot of office events and foster a close atmosphere, In the smaller offices this is really effective

Cons

-Work-Life balance is just not a concern and is blown out of the water on nearly every project, red-zone reports are generated but no-one really pays attention -Culture is VERY young, so you are almost always working for people who are smart, high-achievers with no real leadership experience and, often, very low empathy. This attitude tends to apply to both team and client relations. -As a consultant and below, you're not encouraged to do anything but project work, limiting your ability to build a network outside of your project team, if on a small team or a bad project then you're going to be in a bad way very quickly. -Immense up or out pressure(especially on Project Leaders) leads to an atmosphere of extreme competition and there is a lot of back-stabbing and throwing under the bus.

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5.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Pros

Great place to work if you’re on the right team, however there are lots of pockets of resistance throughout the organization, whether in consulting where people are still clinging onto billable work that slowly dying or in IT where people still think ITIL and exit gates in waterfall is still applicable in the type of work we do now you're going to run into friction and lots of people that are trying to earn a spot not by competence, evolution, and change but by clinging on to processes that are antiquated. IT definitely needs a reboot

Cons

Not many. If you're on the right team. If you're on the wrong team, get ready for bureaucratic hell

3.0
Jul 3, 2026
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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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