Is Booz Allen Hamilton a good company to work for?

Booz Allen Hamilton has an overall rating of 3.9 out of 5, based on over 11,093 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 4% over the last 12 months. 74% of employees would recommend working at Booz Allen Hamilton to a friend and 54% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Booz Allen Hamilton have been left by employees working as Staff Scientist , Lead Systems Engineer and Summer Games Intern .

Does Booz Allen Hamilton pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Booz Allen Hamilton employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.7 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Booz Allen Hamilton. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Booz Allen Hamilton?

74% of Booz Allen Hamilton employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Booz Allen Hamilton 4.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.8 for culture and values and 3.8 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Booz Allen Hamilton?

Associate (1523) , Senior Consultant (1316) , Lead Associate (520) , Consultant (465) , Software Engineer (238) , Senior Associate (228) , Data Scientist (175) , Lead Technologist (105) , Lead Engineer (104) , Intern (95) , Systems Engineer (76) , Business Analyst (73) , Project Manager (66) , Analyst (64) , Associate Consultant (50)

What are the pros of working at Booz Allen Hamilton according to real employee reviews?

"Good benefits and the pace is very slow for those that like to work at a slow pace." ((in 1016 reviews)); "Great people and energy at work" ((in 803 reviews)); "Great work/life balance and very flexible when it comes to work location for off client site." ((in 794 reviews)); "Great culture and lots of resources" ((in 442 reviews)); "Good pay and the people I work with on a daily basis are great." ((in 404 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Booz Allen Hamilton according to real employee reviews?

"Salaries are low and unequal." ((in 277 reviews)); "Poor management particularly with career and reporting managers who rule with an iron fist." ((in 267 reviews)); "Career Managers and senior leadership don't seem to care what happens once you're placed on a project." ((in 246 reviews)); "Hope you get a good Manager and not someone who's there because of their title." ((in 168 reviews)); "NO bonus below the Sr Associate level (a level equivalent to Assistant Director)" ((in 124 reviews))

What are employees saying about Booz Allen Hamilton layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Booz Allen Hamilton layoffs and their outlook for job security at Booz Allen Hamilton in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Booz Allen Hamilton locations?

Washington , McLean , San Diego , Arlington , Herndon , Charleston , San Antonio , Norfolk , Annapolis Junction , Alexandria , Atlanta , Rockville , New York , Los Angeles , Colorado Springs , Chantilly , Dayton , Mc Lean , Tampa , Huntsville , Baltimore , Reston , Fairfax , El Segundo , Lexington Park , Bethesda , Tysons Corner , Honolulu , Fort Meade , Crystal City

Booz Allen Hamilton reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(10,461 total reviews)

Horacio D. Rozanski

79% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

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Booz Allen Hamilton has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 10,461 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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10K reviews

3.0

Aug 17, 2016

Needs to find its direction again

Lead associate (project manager)

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The company is a large, established enterprise with a overall good reputation in the federal space. It is a great place to start your career out of college as it has the right amount of structure to introduce a new grad to the professional world. Many of the market teams also work very hard to make employees feel like they are part of a family rather just a cog in a huge wheel. How they do it could use some improvement though

Cons

After breaking off from its commercial counter part and going public, the culture has drastically changed. Everything is about the bottom line and employees more than anyone really feel that. Raises are horrendous, middle management cannot help junior staff understand the changes because they do not understand changes that upper management and leadership are making, and people no longer feel valued. You cannot even get parking reimbursed when you go visit a client. The firm is losing its prestige and its talent and if they do not make changes quickly, they will be a shell of the company they once were

4.0

Jun 18, 2016

Not bad!

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Very relaxed workplace. Booz is not a bunch of "suits" anymore. Casual attire now accepted unless you're client-facing. - Super fun coworkers. Lots of social events with coworkers and some bills were picked up by Big Booz. - Fairly good pay for the area. - Tons of learning opportunities. They'll take you as far as you want to go in terms of learning and really emphasize personal development. - Definitely room to move up. Promotions left and right. - Fairly good benefits. - Awesome work/life balance. - the SIG in Booz is always trying to take notes from Silicon Valley

Cons

- Not the most talented fellow engineers. Some fresh grads were coming in without knowing how to use the terminal. To be fair, Booz can get away with this because they honestly get paid to manual test their clients projects so Booz just throws their poor engineers at those projects. - If it's not clear by the manual testing project noted above, Booz can have some seriously bad client project. Ex. - 15 year old technologies that are hanging on by a thread. Have fun sifting through 15 years of hacked together, poorly designed programming and trying to tack on another patch. - Projects start and then inevitably die really painful slow deaths. Not much really comes from internal projects. - All the good engineers seem to leave after a year or so, leaving mostly bad hires to stick around. Most likely, the longer someone has been an engineer at Booz, the worse they are. - Really easy for other devs to "coast" at Booz and not have to progress. - I've heard "this is how I've always done it and it works" way too many times.

3.0

Jun 10, 2016

Once a great company, is becoming just another "beltway bandit"

Associate

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

If you are fortunately to join a great team, it can be an incredible way to start or further a career. Lots of "potential" opportunities, though it can be difficult if not impossible to actually get them. "Booz Allen" as a brand is still well-regarded and recognized, though it's now diluted. The firm maintains a strong commitment to serving its government clients in the best way possible.

Cons

Since the company went public, the emphasis has shifted from investing in the employees to providing shareholder value. The perks that made sub-standard salaries tolerable have all but disappeared. Firm leaders increasingly flaunt their wealth while pressuring fully-billable staff to work on business development and proposals.

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