Booz Allen Hamilton reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(10,454 total reviews)
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Horacio D. Rozanski

79% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Booz Allen Hamilton has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 10,454 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Booz Allen Hamilton employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Aug 3, 2021
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Pros

Big name to have on your resume, and if you're willing to reside in the DMV area there are usually alot of project opportunities so getting staffed is not as big of a challenge as it can be at other consulting firms.

Cons

Managers on projects are really hit or miss, and the ones that miss, miss by miles. Definitely a lack of diversity in the leadership space. Ultimately spending 2.5 years on the project I was staffed to only showed me that govt agencies can be very incompetent and wasteful, where BAH fails is allowing these agencies to continue to waste tax payer money, but instead BAH just sneaks in and gets those contracts where they just need to justify seats in a chair as opposed to providing quality consulting. No bonus structure if you're an Associate or below. I was told that I was performing at the top of my peers and got a 2.5% raise each year and was forced to live in one of the more expensive cities in America. When i asked to work remote, a number of BAH subcontractors were given the ability to work remote, I was told that I should simply request to roll off the project because the project wouldnt support it. during my job search after I rolled off I saw the same role that I was working offered through another subcontractor with more pay and the ability to work remote. Project leadership really fails you at times.

2.0
Jun 29, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

If you work on a customer site, you don't have to deal with HQ as much.

Cons

You will received about 10 emails a day in your Booz Allen email. If you are hired but they miscalculated that they have to pay everyone for the entire contract, they just let whole groups go. You need to find your own next job. They say they will assist but you can just attend a few webinars.

3.0
Jun 14, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Good Benefits - Chance to work with lots of technologies - Chance to work on seemingly important federal projects for your country - Good place for those with no experience Not a pro/con: Your mileage will vary based on the project you work on. Booz Allen has hundreds (or thousands) of contracts spread across the federal government. It's more like thousands of companies in one than a single uniform unit.

Cons

- They appear to hire almost anyone, lots of warm bodies. This is good if you need experience, this is bad if you're a good engineer because you'll end up pulling dead weight on your project. - Too much corporate cheerleading and propaganda. The two-day new hire intro is lots of drinking Kool-Aid and pretty thin on important details like benefits etc. It could be condensed into one day with how pointless the cheerleading is. Tons of Booz Allen spam to your inbox like "how booz allen is embodying its values in the month of may". Does someone get paid to write that spam? - The structure of Booz Allen feels very nebulous, poor organization. For instance, they have tons of subdomains that you go to do various tasks like setting up a printer, contact helpdesk, etc.. yet they don't have a centralized area where you can see all the subdomains. You are just expected to learn/know. Very disorganized - Too many meetings, as a developer expect to spend 5-10 hours a week in meetings. - PTO policy is bad, 15 days per year, woof, get with the times. If the project I was on was managed better and Booz Allen had better PTO I might have stayed. - My project was a trainwreck. Team Lead was in over his head. The organization was terrible. Lots of subject line only Jira tasks with no info. No planning. Also, the guy just didn't do anything. Very bad for morale when you see that coming from your lead. It's highly unlikely I would work at Booz Allen again.

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