Bain & Company reviews

Sustainability is an issue, but not as bad as some other offices though. Lots of biases on evaluation and even inaccurate assessment of work quality from upper management when they don't look closely at Analyst's work - ex.: if very inexperienced CTL or Consultant is overseeing team, Principal will believe what gets to his/her ears 100% without understanding the full picture. Very hypothesis driven culture should be a good thing, but majority of the hypotheses are not actually tested as analyses are (very) poorly done to "goal seek" wanted results - I've seen several examples of that. Biases from upper management will for sure impact the results of your work as they are more worried with long term relationship and matching expectations from senior clients - so don't expect to change the world or do cool analyses, but otherwise expect to be one more piece of the puzzle for the relationship - it is a sales organization at the end of the day. Some managers/partners in the LA office can be arrogant or hard headed. Boring projects in the LA office - very few strategy projects, majority will be more operational. Bain is a lot behind other top consulting firms in terms of digital work - just recently started hiring talent specifically for digital projects. Not sure how are things now, but it was chaotic and no one knew what they were doing.

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